Summary
Asaf Zorea is an applied research engineer with five years of experience building ML-driven systems across optics, audio, and bioinformatics domains. He has led small elite teams and owned end-to-end model lifecycles—deploying real-time inference pipelines for high-rate optical sensing at Prisma Photonics and leading speech/audio algorithm development in military intelligence. A co-maintainer of the popular noisereduce Python library (≈1.8k stars, 200k+ PyPI downloads/month), he pairs production-focused open-source work with cross-domain research. Currently splitting time between a stealth startup and doctoral research in bioinformatics at Tel Aviv University, he brings hands-on hardware/software integration experience from electro-optics to FPGAs and a proven ability to deliver under tight constraints. Notably, his background blends military-scale program leadership with open-source impact and emerging academic research.
5 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics at Tel Aviv University
Military Applied Sciences, Military Applied Sciences at Psagot
Hebrew, English, Spanish