Summary
David Goldfarb is a veteran CTO and founder with over three decades of hands-on experience turning ambitious ideas into production-ready prototypes, now focused on LLM and AI applications for startups and businesses. He has led engineering and product efforts across NLP, DSLs, medical systems, and online games, and has a track record of accelerating teams from "0-to-60" and shepherding prototypes into commercial deployments. A serial entrepreneur and early Lisp-era technologist (Symbolics, ILA) who built multiplayer gaming infrastructure and a patent-rich mobile media startup, he combines deep systems and language-model expertise with practical product sense. Based in Israel and trained at MIT, he often operates as a small, high-leverage core (Degel Software) that scales to multi-developer teams when needed, and actively partners with companies to provide reverse-evangelism feedback on developer tools. Notably, he blends vintage low-level perspective with modern Clojure/ClojureScript and LLM integrations, making him adept at bridging research, tooling, and market-ready engineering.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
General, Elementary and High School, General, Elementary and High School at Ramaz
BS, Computer Science and Engineering (VI-3), BS, Computer Science and Engineering (VI-3) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gap year program, Gap year program at Bnei Akiva Hachshara
English, Hebrew