Eilon Sheetrit
Principal AI Scientist at Shield
Israel
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Top SchoolEilon Sheetrit is a Principal AI Scientist and PhD-trained information retrieval expert with 11 years of experience building production-grade ML and deep learning systems that improve search, content moderation, and generative AI products. He combines end-to-end AI architecture skills—LLMs, RAG, low-latency retrieval, fine-tuning and prompt engineering—with a proven record of shipping scalable solutions and filing multiple patents at major companies like Amazon and Intuit. Comfortable bridging research and product, he has advised mission-critical teams in the Israeli Intelligence Service, led cross-functional integrations globally, and teaches graduate courses on text retrieval at Reichman University. Notably, he reduced annotation effort by 90% through an LLM-based labeling tool and consistently focuses on practical, latency-aware designs for real-world information access challenges.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Management Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Management Engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
English, French, Hebrew
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Github Skills (32)
intellij10
deploying9
keras-tensorflow9
c-library8
python8
keras8
scala8
java8
differentiation8
spark8
artificial-intelligence8
linear-algebra8
modular7
deeplearning4j7
gpu7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Eilons/RunningRankers
Oct 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:172 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 5 months
Eilons/TrecEval
Nov 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:7 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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