Technical Solutions · AI · Security · Cloud
Preferred name: Kobi · U.S. nickname: Kobe
Technical solutions that survive the jump from idea to production.
I work where product, engineering, security and customers meet. For more than 15 years I have turned business problems into systems, led delivery teams, handled production, and translated technical tradeoffs into clear decisions.
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A career built across product, systems, customers and operations.
The roles overlap by design. SiteGuru continued while I took focused engagements with Shopper AI and other projects.
Dec 2015 - Present
Founder & Technical Solutions Lead
SiteGuru
Own technical discovery, architecture, customer communication, engineering delivery, QA, integrations, deployment and production troubleshooting across custom web platforms, commerce and business systems.
Dec 2024 - Aug 2025 · Freelance
Fractional CISO & Security Compliance Lead
Shopper AI
Led SOC 2 readiness and gap remediation through audit readiness, security policies, IAM, access controls, supplier questionnaires, cloud and on-prem coordination, and customer-facing security work with CyTech International and retailer IT teams.
2023 · Industry representation
Shopper AI industry representation
Shopper AI
Represented the product in US retail technology activity during 2023, including ShopTalk Las Vegas in March. A second US retail technology trip followed in September 2023.
2021 - 2022 · Freelance
Technical Product, Data & ML Operations Lead
Shopper AI
Owned operational delivery for a retail computer-vision platform: CCTV ingestion, ROI extraction, MongoDB, Redshift and MySQL data flow, CVAT annotation, ground truth, model-training datasets, model-quality reporting and an annotation operation of about 50 people.
2011 - 2015
Physical Security - Student Positions
Ministry of Defense
2005 - 2010
Security, Entrepreneurship & Early Web Development
United States
Field evidence
Technology also has to work outside the meeting room.
The Shopper AI work connected product and R&D with retailers, IT teams, camera infrastructure and business stakeholders. These are selected historical materials from that period.
Selected systems
What I owned, not just what was in the stack.
Auralis
AI-assisted local-first workflow platform spanning Python services, Next.js and TypeScript UI, SQL persistence, provider orchestration, automated QA and evidence-driven release workflows.
Retail Computer Vision
CCTV to ROI extraction, annotation, ground truth, training data, evaluation and retail analytics. Connected R&D, data operations, store infrastructure and customer IT.
Security & SOC 2 Readiness
Policies, evidence, access control, IAM, 2FA, incident management, supplier questionnaires, cloud environments and coordination with external cyber specialists.
Public Engineering Portfolio
Sanitized case studies derived from historical client work, private repositories and current projects. No client source code or confidential data is published.
Open case studyTechnology map
The stack changes. System ownership does not.
A visual map of technologies and platforms I have used directly or owned as part of delivery, including AI tooling, cloud infrastructure, application stacks and production systems. It is not a claim of equal specialist depth in every tool.
AWSGCPReactTypeScriptNext.jsPythonPHPNode.jsMongoDBMySQLRedshiftDockerGitHubLinux
OpenAIClaudeGeminiCodexCopilotAzureCloudflareVercel
Technical range
Enough depth to ask the right questions, enough range to own the outcome.
I do not position myself as a specialist in every item below. These are technologies and operating areas I have worked with directly or owned as part of delivery.
Solutions & Product
Discovery · architecture · demos · POCs · requirements · integrations · customer-facing delivery
AI & Data
Computer vision · ML data pipelines · annotation · ground truth · F1 · model evaluation · AI-assisted engineering
Security
SOC 2 readiness · ISO 27001 alignment · IAM · 2FA · access control · incident management
Cloud & Production
AWS · GCP · EC2 · S3 · Redshift · Linux · CI/CD · logging · backups · databases
Application
PHP · JavaScript · TypeScript · React · Next.js · Python · SQL · WordPress · WooCommerce · Shopify · Magento
Leadership
Distributed teams · vendors · QA · product ownership · delivery governance · technical communication
HackerU
Full Stack Developer Program · 2011 - 2013
Golani Brigade, Battalion 12
Combat Soldier · Squad Commander · Staff Sergeant · 2002 - 2005
Contact
Open to senior technical solutions, AI security and customer-facing technology roles.
Israel · Hybrid work · Planned travel