Summary
Gilad Gal is a seasoned product leader with 10+ years of experience building search, analytics and ML-driven products, currently driving search, geo and analytics in Elasticsearch at Elastic. He has a rare blend of technical depth (BSc in Computer Science) and commercial savvy (BA in Business Administration), proven by leading a search engine rollout that materially boosted company revenue and launching the first SaaS offering at Ex Libris. Gilad has founded a computer-vision startup, holds a patent-pending method for automated image tagging, and applied deep convolutional neural networks at eBay for visual search and segmentation. Comfortable at the intersection of research and product, he has repeatedly scaled algorithmic systems from prototype to production and led cross-functional teams through M&A and large customer rollouts.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Business Administration & Economy, BA, Business Administration & Economy at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at The Hebrew University