Barak Oshri is a Silicon Valley founder and CTO with 11 years of experience building ML-driven products and developer platforms from research prototypes to production. He co-founded Helicone, an open-source LLM observability platform used by developers to monitor and evaluate large language models, and now leads technology at Nestmed while advising as a Technical Fellow at SciFi VC. His background blends deep academic work at Stanford—first-author KDD publications and multiple TA roles in flagship ML courses—with hands-on engineering across full-stack, front-end UX improvements, and ML systems at companies like Sisu. Known for shipping pragmatic features (e.g., chat visualization and CSV tooling) that improve developer workflows, he pairs product-minded engineering with research rigor. Based in the Bay Area, he brings a rare combination of startup leadership, academic credibility, and a focus on observable, reliable ML infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
IB Diploma, IB Diploma at United World College of South East Asia
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Stanford University
🧊 Open source LLM observability platform. One line of code to monitor, evaluate, and experiment. YC W23 🍓
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:17 reviews, 163 commits, 118 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Barak primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Helicone platform. They implemented features such as CSV download functionality, and updated the user interface with a new chatgpt visualization, also making changes to the request and user table. The user made improvements to the existing codebase by adding new features and fixing several bugs. The user also updated the codebase to accommodate custom properties and moderation view.
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