Yaron Cohen
Sr. Manager, Data Science
Holon, Tel Aviv District, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolYaron Cohen is a senior data science leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling ML products in cybersecurity and high-tech environments, currently leading Data Science at CrowdStrike after directing ML research at Palo Alto Networks. He combines deep technical fluency—from hands-on algorithm and backend work to MLOps—with strategic product and business acumen informed by an MBA and geopolitics training at Yale. At Cybereason he grew data science capabilities end-to-end, incubating generative AI and LLM initiatives and shepherding multiple ML products into production while managing distributed teams. His early background in aerospace and real-time guidance systems at Rafael gives him uncommon rigor in system design and validation for safety- and security-critical applications. An entrepreneurial co-founder with a track record of turning market inefficiencies into paying customers, he also contributes to open-source projects solving low-level compatibility and build issues for graphics libraries. Yaron is based in the Tel Aviv region and brings a pragmatic, cross-functional leadership style that bridges research, engineering, and business impact.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Business Administration and Management with focus on Hi-Tec companies, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Business Administration and Management with focus on Hi-Tec companies at Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyGeopolitics and Global Business, Geopolitics and Global Business at Yale School of Management
Hebrew, English
Github Skills (9)
c1710
build-system10
c1110
opengl10
makefile10
cmake9
windows9
cprogramming-language7
c-language7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
anholt/libepoxy
Jul 2015 - Dec 2016
Epoxy is a library for handling OpenGL function pointer management for you
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 12 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Yaron primarily focused on improving the functionality and compatibility of the OpenGL function pointer management library. Their contributions included addressing compatibility issues with specific OpenGL ES implementations, particularly on non-conformant devices. They also added support for building the library with MSVC 2013 and fixed related build errors and warnings. Furthermore, they refined the build process, including fixing file permissions and adding support for CMake.
openglepoxyhandlingpointer
yaronct/libepoxy
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 months
openglepoxyhandlingpointer
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