Itamar Shefi
Core Team at Stealth Startup
Israel
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Top SchoolItamar Shefi is a multidisciplinary engineer and linguist with 11 years of experience building Python-driven NLP systems and backend services across startups and research labs. He co-founded and served as CTO at 3bears.ai (acquired by Base.ai), then led senior engineering roles at Scala Biodesign and product-focused NLP work at CRUX and Chorus, combining product delivery with deep language expertise. Comfortable shifting between hands-on engineering, research, and leadership, he blends academic rigor from an M.A. in Linguistics with practical CS skills from a B.Sc. to tackle language-heavy ML and backend challenges. Based in Israel, he’s currently on the core team of a stealth startup, continuing to bridge linguistics, engineering, and even game design on the side. An uncommon strength is his sustained focus on shipping production NLP features over nearly a decade, not just prototyping models.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
M.A. Linguistics, M.A. Linguistics at Tel Aviv University
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Github Skills (50)
word2vec10
hebrew10
glove10
redis9
fasttext9
sentence-similarity9
nlp9
word-embeddings8
linter7
static-analysis7
python7
stylelint7
rust6
database6
lexicon6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ishefi/semantle-he
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
A Hebrew version of Semantle.
Contributions:22 reviews, 106 commits, 39 PRs in 11 months
word-embeddingshebrewsentence-similarityfasttextglove
ishefi/scripts
May 2019 - Oct 2024
Contributions:10 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 6 months
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