Ori Levari is a Software Engineering Manager in San Francisco with a decade of experience leading teams and shipping production-grade systems across startups and Microsoft. He blends hands-on backend and automation engineering with ML integration expertise—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like ONNX Runtime and Windows Machine Learning, including DirectX 12-based model inference samples and build automation for onnxruntime.dll. At Floodbase he progressed from senior engineer to manager, guiding product delivery while retaining deep technical involvement. A University of Washington CS graduate with a minor in Global Health, Ori brings a pragmatic research-to-production mindset informed by early work in humanitarian and health-focused organizations. Colleagues rely on him for clean engineering fixes, build-system resilience, and pragmatic ML deployment patterns that bridge low-level graphics APIs and modern inference runtimes.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Washington
Contributions:1 release, 5 reviews, 51 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ori primarily contributed to the development of a D3D12 command queue sample, demonstrating expertise in integrating machine learning models with DirectX 12. Their work involved constructing a LearningModelDevice from a D3D12 command queue, loading models, creating sessions and bindings, and running model evaluations. Further contributions included the addition of a custom operator sample, and updating the top3 results code across all samples.
ONNX Runtime: cross-platform, high performance ML inferencing and training accelerator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Contributions:27 reviews, 49 commits, 99 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Ori primarily contributed to the maintenance and improvement of the ONNX Runtime by fixing bugs and updating existing code. They addressed issues such as missing IR versions in test data and incorrect ordering within header files. Furthermore, the user was involved in the automation aspects of the project, specifically in the build process for the `onnxruntime.dll` file by populating the file metadata, and in adapting the build process to handle downlevel and WCOS scenarios. The user also implemented fixes related to SDL for better code security and debugging.
runtimetrainingtensorflowai-frameworkaccelerator
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Ori Levari - Software Engineering Manager at Floodbase