Summary
Shay Tsadok is a Principal AI Engineer based in Tel Aviv with over two decades of software experience and 13 years focused on ML, MLOps, backend and cloud systems. He has progressed from low-level C++ and mission-critical backend work in the IDF to leading ML engineering and MLOps efforts at Fundbox and contributing to AI tooling at Deepchecks and Flare. Shay blends hands-on engineering—Scala/Spark, Go, Docker, AWS—and product-level architecture, having designed CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native microservices and operational ML platforms. He’s known for growing teams and talent (multiple direct reports were promoted) and for operationalizing models into production at scale. An autodidact with strong interpersonal skills, he pairs curiosity about generative AI with a practical focus on reliability and observability. Unusually, his career spans both enterprise SaaS delivery and deep operational experience in high-throughput, 24/7 systems.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt), Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt) at IDF Officers School
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at IDF Computers School
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at ORT Colleges
English, Hebrew