Amnon Catav
Senior ML Engineer at Meta
Israel
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Top SchoolAmnon Catav is a Senior ML Engineer with 8 years of experience building production ML systems, currently working at Meta after leading ML efforts at Pinecone. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University and brings a rare blend of applied analytics experience from Microsoft’s Education Analytics team and production vector search expertise from Pinecone. As a former commander in Unit 8200, he combines disciplined technical leadership with hands-on model engineering and feature-driving product work (notably as Tech Lead for Pinecone Assistant). Based in Israel, Amnon specializes in scaling retrieval and embedding-driven systems and has a track record of moving research ideas into robust, customer-facing infrastructure.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Tel Aviv University
Github Skills (22)
openai-api10
interpretation10
python10
vector-database10
semantic-search10
llm10
python-client10
ai10
jupyter-notebook10
chatgpt9
evaluation9
api9
openai9
generative-ai8
machine-learning8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
JonathanSomer/structural-biology-machine-learning-project
Jun 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:51 commits, 33 pushes in 4 months
pinecone-io/pinecone-text
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
Pinecone text client library
Contributions:37 reviews, 45 PRs, 60 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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