Summary
Shai Geva is a CTO and co-founder with decades of hands-on engineering and research experience, specializing in e-commerce, pricing intelligence, and applied information retrieval. He built Upstream Commerce’s next-generation pricing platform that continuously tracks competitor prices and surfaces actionable insights for online retailers, translating academic ideas into commercially successful products. Prior roles as Chief Scientist at Adobe, Omniture, and Mercado Software reflect deep expertise in merchandising, search, and analytics across enterprise-scale systems. Trained with a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon and a BSc from Tel Aviv University, he blends rigorous theory (NLP, IR, distributed systems) with practical system architecture and cloud-native implementation. Known for shaping technology strategy as much as code, he has an uncommon knack for turning complex data problems into elegant, production-ready solutions. Based in Israel, he continues to steer product innovation at the intersection of data science and commerce.
6 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Mathematics and Computer Science, BSc, Mathematics and Computer Science at Tel Aviv University
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University