Haggai Shachar is a Principal AI Engineer based in Tel Aviv with 20+ years of engineering and leadership experience and a decade focused on AI and data at scale. He has repeatedly built production-grade data platforms, MLOps pipelines, and real-time ML systems for millions of users, most recently driving generative AI and infrastructure initiatives at Moon Active and now Backline AI. Comfortable both as an architect and hands-on practitioner, he’s fine-tuned foundation models, deployed generative art tooling, and translated AI strategy into developer-friendly platforms. His background spans startups he co-founded to leading large global engineering teams, giving him a rare blend of entrepreneurial grit and enterprise delivery. Notably, he cut his teeth in Israeli Military Intelligence on mission-critical systems—a throughline that explains his emphasis on reliability, performance, and scalable architectures.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at The Open University of Israel
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.
Request Free Trial
Haggai Shachar - Principal AI Engineer at Backline AI