Iddo Berger
VP R&D at PyData Israel
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolIddo Berger is a pragmatic VP of R&D with 11+ years building production ML, NLP and computer vision systems, currently leading R&D at Bioz from Tel Aviv. He combines academic depth—a MA in Computational Linguistics and years in university research—with hands-on startup CTO experience at Superfly Insights and co‑founding Signify. A seasoned Pythonist and data-science tech lead, he’s shipped classifiers, annotation pipelines and monitoring/infrastructure tools across industries including finance, healthcare and e‑commerce. Organizer of PyData Tel Aviv, he bridges community, research and product teams to accelerate adoption of practical ML. Known for a pragmatic engineering style, he pairs large-scale data science thinking with low-level systems experience (from embedded and C#/Java projects to cloud deployments). Outside work he’s an open‑source and crypto enthusiast who continuously self‑educates and mentors others.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
M.A. in Computational Linguistics, M.A. in Computational Linguistics at Tel Aviv UniversityB.A. in Computer Science, B.A. in Computer Science at The Open University of Israel
Hebrew, English, German, Italian, Arabic
Github Skills (89)
python10
wordnet10
django10
genetic10
part-of-speech-tagger10
lemmatization10
normalization10
morphological-analysis10
language-processing10
dependency-parsing10
orm10
hebrew10
turkish10
client-library9
fuzzy-logic9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
iddoberger/awesome-hebrew-nlp
Apr 2017 - Jan 2023
:book: A curated list of resources for NLP (Natural Language Processing) for Hebrew
Contributions:14 commits, 4 PRs, 13 pushes in 5 years 9 months
nlpmorphological-analysispart-of-speech-taggerword-embeddingslanguage-processing
iddoberger/programmer-competency-matrix
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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