Yanir Shahak
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Oracle
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorYanir Shahak is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience currently at Oracle, where he evangelizes and demonstrates next-generation AI and Generative AI services across customers, marketing, and sales. He previously led engineering teams at Microsoft—shaping accessibility features like Immersive Reader to help dyslexic readers and ELLs—and managed product and engineering efforts as a founder and CEO in earlier ventures. Comfortable at the intersection of technical strategy, customer engagement, and product marketing, he translates complex cloud AI capabilities into practical, customer-facing solutions. Based in Redmond, he blends startup grit with enterprise-scale delivery, having built and scaled embedded social products and developer-facing demos. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic technical leader who pairs deep engineering chops with a talent for storytelling about technology.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Hebrew, English, Spanish
Github Skills (24)
cognitive-services10
immersive-reader9
azure-cognitive-services9
reader9
sdk9
highlighting8
oracle-cloud-infrastructure8
conda7
python7
jupyter-notebook7
science6
deep-learning6
machine-learning6
jquery6
ai5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
YanirShahak/analytics-ai
Aug 2022 - Sep 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 65 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 1 month
YanirShahak/langchain-oci-genai
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Use OCI Generative AI with LangChain
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 29 days
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