Ido Avital

Professional Summary

I'm an AI engineer and data scientist who leads technical initiatives from the first idea to working software. At work, I architect and build AI, data and software systems end to end and guide engineers across teams. Independently, I founded and built Behirot, a bilingual election-poll aggregator.

Professional Experience

1. AI Engineer & Data Scientist

   Nov 2024 - Present

   Leads AI, data and software initiatives end to end, from identifying the opportunity and defining requirements through architecture, hands-on development, testing and deployment.

   • Architected and built a multi-agent AI platform from the ground up: the specialised agents, the orchestration engine and the tool integrations that support complex engineering analysis and decision-support workflows.
   • Built and deployed enterprise applications and analytical platforms that replaced fragmented manual processes with integrated, traceable workflows.
   • Provides technical direction and mentoring to engineers within and across teams, guiding architectural decisions, complex problem-solving and delivery.

2. Technical Support & Team Leadership

   Jul 2021 - Jan 2026

   Part-time, alongside studies. Led technical support work, guided and trained team members, and initiated improvements to internal knowledge management and operational processes.

Leadership Experience

1. Captain, Data & Research (reserves)

   2017 - Present

   Israel Defense Forces

   Leads a data and research team in the reserves. During active service, commanded a team, combining personnel leadership with technical and operational responsibilities.

Technical Expertise

Agentic AI & LLM Systems

Multi-agent architecture and orchestration · Tool integration for specialised agents · Retrieval-augmented generation · Semantic and hybrid retrieval · Retrieval evaluation · Structured output from language models · Azure OpenAI

Machine Learning & Research

Deep learning with PyTorch · Computer vision: segmentation, detection and tracking · Multi-view geometry · Diffusion models · Graph neural networks · Active learning · Stochastic optimal control and Monte Carlo methods · Benchmark design and evaluation

Data & Software Engineering

Python · SQL: SQL Server, Snowflake, PostgreSQL · PySpark and Databricks · FastAPI · TypeScript and React · Vector databases: Pinecone · Docker · Git, GitHub Actions and CI/CD · Linux, Bash and PowerShell

Architecture & Delivery

AI system architecture · Requirements and problem definition · End-to-end delivery to production · Automated testing: pytest, Playwright, Vitest · Cloud: Azure, AWS, Cloudflare · Bilingual, accessible interfaces · Technical direction and mentoring

Selected Engineering Projects

• Behirot

  Independent

  Founder and principal technical developer

  A bilingual (Hebrew and English) aggregator of published Israeli election polls, with its averaging method and per-poll sources published openly.

  Technologies: TypeScript · React · Vite · Tailwind CSS · Supabase (PostgreSQL) · Cloudflare

• RefundIt

  Academic · team of 3

  Project Owner · Technical Lead · Developer

  A Hebrew conversational assistant, built by a three-student course team, that reads tax documents, extracts and checks their fields, and tells a salaried worker what is still missing for a refund claim. It is not tax advice.

  Technologies: Python · FastAPI · Multi-agent orchestration · Retrieval-augmented generation · Pinecone · PostgreSQL (Supabase)

• StayMatch

  Academic · team of 2

  Project Owner · Technical Lead · Developer

  A two-person course project: describe a stay in plain words, a language model turns the wish into a target profile, and nearest-neighbour search ranks about two million listings enriched with public safety, income, health and air-quality data.

  Technologies: PySpark · Databricks · Partitioned Parquet · GPT-4o (structured output) · Data enrichment joins · K-nearest neighbours

Education

1. B.Sc. in Data Science and Engineering

   Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

   Coursework completed · Degree conferral pending

Research & Presentations

• Breaking SAM 2

  Academic · team of 4

  A 52-clip benchmark of when SAM 2 video segmentation fails: it copes with extreme changes of scale, but breaks when the object itself is cut, poured or melted.

• Market Making Under Constraints

  Academic · team of 2

  Optimal quoting for a market maker carrying inventory risk: two stochastic-control problems, each solved and cross-checked by independent methods.

• Technical presentations

  Presented AI work and its value to engineering and leadership audiences inside the company.

Languages

• Hebrew - Native
• English - Professional