Bet Shemesh, Israel — AI & DevOps consultant
Jacob Shore
I help small teams ship AI systems that hold up in production — and run the infrastructure underneath them.
Available now · Remote friendly
Senior engineering for small teams — AI systems that actually ship, on infrastructure that holds.
AI systems integration
RAG pipelines, semantic retrieval, and agent orchestration — with the evaluation tooling to prove they work. I treat LLM features as engineering problems: measurable, debuggable, and reliable enough to put in front of users.
- RAG pipelines
- Agent orchestration
- Eval tooling
- Semantic retrieval
DevOps & platform engineering
Kubernetes, GitOps, and CI/CD — in the cloud or self-hosted where things have to keep working. I own deployments from first commit to post-mortem, and leave behind infrastructure your team can run without me.
- Kubernetes
- ArgoCD
- Terraform
- CI/CD
Backend engineering
Production services in Python, Go, or Node — designed, built, tested, and operated end to end. Language chosen by the problem, not the résumé.
- Python
- Go
- Node.js
- FastAPI · Django
Security-focused technology firm, Tel Aviv
Built the automated remote update system — web UI through Kubernetes deployment — that replaced a physical-courier process, cutting update time from weeks to under an hour. Ran Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and Terraform in a security-constrained, self-hosted environment.
IronScales, Ramat Gan
Django/Python APIs for a high-availability enterprise email-security platform, working with infrastructure on deployment, scaling, and reliability on AWS.
DatAlign, Beit Shemesh
CI/CD pipelines and Docker-based deployments for HIPAA-compliant healthcare infrastructure; introduced infrastructure-as-code across environments.
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Focused contract engagements, project-based or part-time retainer. Best suited to small teams and early-stage startups that need senior-level work without a full-time hire. Remote friendly, based in Israel. Currently available and able to start quickly; every inquiry answered within a day or two.
- Contract or retainer
- Remote friendly
- Available now
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The ponderings of Jacob Shore
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Daily life, practicing Arabic.
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Turkish Notebook: Documenting my learning journey of the Turkish language.
Tell me what you're building and where it hurts.
A paragraph is plenty — what the system does, what's slow or fragile or missing, and roughly when you need it. I read everything myself and reply within a day or two.