Yonah Taurog
Software Developer at DICTA - The Israel Center for Text Analysis
Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolYonah Taurog is a software developer with 8 years’ experience building production ML and full-stack systems, currently developing high-accuracy OCR and NLP features at DICTA in Tel-Aviv. He designs end-to-end pipelines (Python, Tesseract, Flask, Docker, AWS) that achieve ~97% word accuracy on Rashi-script texts, outperforming commercial OCR and enabling research-grade digital libraries. Past roles span data science, product MVPs, and teaching—bringing practical expertise in time-series modeling, LDA topic modeling, and production monitoring (Airflow, GCP). Yonah pairs hands-on engineering with research-oriented experimentation, leveraging LLMs and prompt engineering to expand search capabilities and create user-facing extensions. He also has a background in biomedical research and formal training in mathematics and computer science, which informs a methodical, data-driven approach to problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Certification, Data Science, Certification, Data Science at Israel Tech Challenge <itc>Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Yeshiva UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Yavneh Academy of Dallas
English, Hebrew, SpanishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Dicta-Israel-Center-for-Text-Analysis/Dicta-Library-Download
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:5 commits, 17 pushes in 3 months
xtreemtg/chess_cheaters
Aug 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:7 pushes in 9 months
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