Summary
Levi Segal is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems and leading teams from startup to scale. He has helmed technical organizations as CTO and VP Engineering, driving initiatives like Kubernetes replatforming, centralized configuration at massive scale, and real-time ML-driven bidding and ad platforms. Currently founding a stealth AI startup and co-founding Kuberkai (Kubernetes + AI in space), he combines hands-on AI model optimization and deployment with practical productization. Known for boosting developer velocity (5x) while eliminating production outages, he emphasizes minimizing technical debt and empowering engineers through clear career ladders and full-cycle ownership. Based in Los Angeles with a UCLA BA, he blends entrepreneurial pragmatism with deep systems and ML operational experience, often surfacing non-obvious wins by instrumenting infrastructure to convert reliability work into product features.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Russian, Spanish, English