Summary
Lidor Shelef is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of experience building scalable data platforms and real-time pipelines, currently at Workday after helping stand up a data engineering team at Oracle. He combines deep data engineering chops—Airflow, Trino, Kafka, Spark, Databricks—with cloud and DevOps tooling (AWS/Azure, Docker, Kubernetes/OpenShift) to deliver reliable ETL, streaming, and API-driven solutions. Lidor pairs hands-on ML and NLP model work (TensorFlow, PyTorch, HuggingFace) with product-focused analytics and visualization, making data accessible across organizations. A former Data Engineer/Data Scientist at the Bank of Israel, he brings practical experience in productionizing ML, building data lakes, and automating workflows. He also mentors teams and codifies best practices, and his academic project used LLMs to analyze simulation data—highlighting an early focus on applying generative AI to domain problems.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - B.Sc, Software Engineering, Final Project - 91 - Analyzing Simulations Data via LLM and Prompt Engineering, Bachelor of Science - B.Sc, Software Engineering, Final Project - 91 - Analyzing Simulations Data via LLM and Prompt Engineering at Jerusalem College of Engineering
English, Hebrew