Summary
Yaniv Shani is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 9 years of executive experience building and scaling developer-focused SaaS and AI products from MVP to market. As Founder & CEO of Apigene and former VP/Director at Deepchecks, Lightrun, JFrog and Oracle, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic product leadership—shipping LLMOps and MLOps solutions, driving rapid six-week MVP launches, and delivering enterprise-grade features like SOC2 readiness and multi-cloud deployments. He has repeatedly grown and reorganized global R&D teams, established CI/CD and observability platforms, and launched both open-source and commercial products that improved release velocity and testing coverage at scale. Based in Ramat HaSharon, Israel, Yaniv pairs deep systems and cloud expertise (K8s, Docker, AWS, Python, Java, Go) with a knack for turning complex operational constraints into pragmatic, revenue-driving solutions. A pragmatic operator who still codes, he’s equally comfortable negotiating strategic partnerships as he is optimizing a release train or shaving minutes off a certification workflow.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Computer Science, B.A. Computer Science at Reichman University
English, Hebrew