Ofer Bronstein
Software Engineer at Meta
Israel
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Top SchoolOfer Bronstein is a software engineer and NLP specialist with 13 years of experience building production-grade language systems and scalable infrastructure, currently at Meta. He holds an M.Sc. in AI/NLP and has driven research-to-product work in unsupervised information extraction, textual entailment, semantic parsing and machine translation, including leading development on the EU EXCITEMENT open-source platform. Ofer combines academic rigor with hands-on delivery—moving from research prototypes to deployed services—while also bringing deep systems expertise gained during six years in the IDF managing secure, distributed networks and critical server fleets. He has held senior data science and NLP engineering roles at startups and research labs, routinely collaborating across international teams. Notably, his research emphasized extracting event definitions on-the-fly using similarity measures, reducing reliance on labeled data—an approach that reflects his preference for practical, low-friction solutions.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at The Open UniversityGuest Researcher, Computational Linguistics, Guest Researcher, Computational Linguistics at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität HeidelbergM.Sc., Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence (Natural Language Processing), M.Sc., Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence (Natural Language Processing) at Bar-Ilan University
English, Hebrew, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
textual9
svn7
compression6
auto-increment6
hibernate6
h26
cas6
dictionary6
bzip6
database-schema6
java6
javascript4
documentation3
infrastructure3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Aureliu/BIU-RPI-Event-Extraction-Project
Oct 2013 - Jun 2015
Contributions:286 commits in 1 year 7 months
oferbr/biu-infrastructure
Oct 2012 - Feb 2013
Contributions:14 commits in 3 months
infrastructuresnapshotsvnbiu
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