Ophir Samson
CEO And Founder at Ezra AI Labs
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOphir Samson is a founder and CEO with nine years of hands-on experience building AI-enabled products and commercial partnerships at the intersection of machine learning and transportation. He pairs a Ph.D. in applied mathematics and an MBA from Stanford with a track record of founding and exiting startups (Juliet AI Labs acquired by Spark Networks) and leading business and engineering teams at Aurora, Uber, GM, and Plus. Ophir is a full-stack AI practitioner—proficient in LLM engineering, RAG, fine-tuning, LangChain, and modern web stacks—who rapidly prototypes companies and productionizes voice and recruiting-focused AI. He focuses on high social-impact technologies and has negotiated complex OEM and renewable energy deals at enterprise scale. Outside tech he’s an unusual blend of rigor and showmanship: a professional magician for 15+ years and a chef trained in Michelin-starred kitchens, skills that inform his user-centric product intuition.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting Scholar Mechanical Engineering, Visiting Scholar Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPh.D Applied Mathematics, Ph.D Applied Mathematics at Imperial College LondonMaster of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Stanford University
English, HebrewGithub contributions (5)
ophir11235813/autonomous_drive_deep_neural_net
Aug 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:38 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
ophir11235813/traffic_sign_classifier
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:79 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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