Omri Mendels
Head Of AI, Founding Team Member at Mindware.Health
Israel
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Top SchoolOmri Mendels is a seasoned AI and data science leader with over a decade of experience building production ML systems and leading distributed teams across healthcare and government engagements. As a founding Head of AI at Mindware.Health and a former Principal Group Data Science Manager at Microsoft, he blends strategic leadership with hands-on engineering, particularly in NLP, data privacy, and generative AI. He co-led the widely used Microsoft Presidio open-source project, contributing backend fixes and test automation that improved entity handling and de-identification reliability. His background spans applied research and productization—from wearable personalization models and 10 patents at Intel to open-source contributions and enterprise deployments—demonstrating a rare mix of research rigor and delivery focus. Based in Israel with an M.Sc. in Intelligent Systems, Omri is comfortable moving between code, models, and customer-facing strategy to turn complex AI problems into trusted solutions.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc Intelligent Systems (Under Industrial Engineering), M.Sc Intelligent Systems (Under Industrial Engineering) at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Hebrew, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
pytest10
python10
anonymity10
data-masking10
anonymize10
testing9
unit-testing9
java9
data-protection9
mocking9
mockito9
spatial6
nlp6
spacy6
natural-language-processing6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
omri374/taganomaly
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 36 pushes in 2 months
microsoft/TagAnomaly
Aug 2018 - Aug 2022
Anomaly detection analysis and labeling tool, specifically for multiple time series (one time series per category)
Contributions:35 commits, 25 PRs, 46 pushes in 4 years 1 month
anomaly-detectiontime-serieslabeling-tooltagging-toolshiny
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