Ofer Mendelevitch

Bio

Ofer Mendelevitch is an AI and ML leader specializing in building production systems with large language models, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and agentic systems. He has been developing LLM-based applications since 2019, in the early days of modern transformer-based systems. Over his career, Ofer has led engineering and data science teams from research to large-scale deployment across startups and enterprises. He has also worked closely with developer communities and go-to-market teams to translate AI capabilities into real-world adoption. He was the founder and CTO of Syntegra, where he built transformer-based systems for synthetic healthcare data, and has held leadership roles at Yahoo!, Hortonworks, LendUp, and Helix. He holds degrees from the Technion and Tel Aviv University and is the author of Practical Data Science with Hadoop (Addison-Wesley).