Ron Yadgar
Senior Data Scientist
Holon, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolRon Yadgar is a Senior Data Scientist based in Israel with a decade of experience and five years focused specifically on machine learning, delivering end-to-end production-ready solutions from literature review through deployment and performance analysis. He has built and operationalized models across classification, boosting, SVMs, and NLP (CRF, LSTM), and currently applies this expertise at Wix after prior roles at enterprise AI leader BeyondMinds and several startups. His background blends hands-on software development and live streaming systems with deep academic training in communication systems and multicast reliability, enabling a pragmatic approach to scalable ML engineering. Ron is comfortable spanning the full ML lifecycle—data collection, preprocessing, modeling, and monitoring—while shortening time-to-value in production settings. Colleagues describe him as self-taught and research-minded, often translating academic insights into robust engineering products.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Communication Systems Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Communication Systems Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
English
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Github Skills (51)
wowza10
media-services9
kaltura9
media-library9
transcoding9
stream9
ovp9
video-streaming8
streaming8
backend8
php8
video-management8
video-processing8
custom-component7
xiaomi7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kaltura/liveDVR
Nov 2015 - Mar 2017
DVR implementation built on top of live streams
Contributions:56 releases, 223 commits, 209 PRs in 1 year 3 months
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kaltura/media-server
Jan 2016 - Mar 2017
Kaltura Wowza Media Server
Contributions:119 commits, 89 PRs, 134 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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