• Started coding when I was 8.
• Then around 12 I started walking around my home town to try and convince small businesses I should build them websites.
• But no one took me seriously, so I decided to build my own stuff.
• That led to me start one of Israel's first and biggest mobile games companies targeting the Israeli market.
• Gruchka Games (iOS) - reaching 1.5M downloads and 150k MAU at its peak.
• I then joined the IDF and served in one of the elite cybersecurity units as a system and security engineer.
• I basically set up entire server rooms from scratch and wrote proper code (check out a funny story of my early coding days here).
• After my service, I moved to London, UK, and joined Cado Security.
• Was the first founding member.
• I grew with the company from seed to series B.
• The company later got acquired by Darktrace for $100M+.
• I founded Deepen, an AI companion some time before chatgpt came out.
• We got around ~20k downloads in ~4 months, but I had a co-founder breakup and closed the company.
• Moved to San Francisco, I built a bunch of AI x Hardware products at Founders, Inc..
• Including The Ark and Adeus, the first open source AI Wearable (announcement).
• Which then became Based Hardware Omi / Friend Company, to which I'm an founding member.
• Now I'm building Secondly - experimenting with new interfaces beyond the chat.

In between all of the above, I built many other things, some of which are listed on [Past Projects].

Patents:

• Method and system for detecting and preventing unauthorized access to a computing device
• :( that's it, I'm too lazy to submit more

Random:

• I run the SF2 hacker house in San Francisco
• I speak about AI, Open Source, and other stuff on w/ my friend Yam (Hebrew)
• LLMs Cheatsheet repo (Running LLMs on a Raspberry Pi, Fine-tune small LLama3 8B model with output from Big LLM Llama 3 405B, more)