Summary
Elad Pressman is a versatile backend engineer and data scientist with 8 years of professional experience, combining a formal grounding in mathematics and philosophy with hands-on expertise in algorithms, ML, Neo4j graph systems and backend architectures. As a longtime freelancer and former backend developer at companies like Chegg and DealPly, he has built production services, ML-driven campaign automation and data pipelines across Python, Java, Solr and ElasticSearch. He founded and curates Conspil.com, which grew to 50k monthly readers, demonstrating an uncommon ability to translate deep niche knowledge into engaged communities and media appearances. Comfortable in both structured teams and ambiguous projects, he teaches and speaks publicly on graph databases, philosophy and esoteric subjects—bringing analytical rigor and wide intellectual curiosity to technical problems. Based in Tel Aviv, he pairs practical engineering chops with a penchant for exploring unusual intersections such as signal processing, modular synthesis and the philosophy of time.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Philosophy, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Philosophy at Bar-Ilan University
English, Hebrew, Spanish