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Shay Schwartzburd

Passionate technologist & dreamer

About Me

I'm a risk taker by nature, always looking for a challenge. Learning new skills and venturing into uncharted territory are things that excite me and bring out the best I have to offer. Hard work and perseverance have always been faithful companions in my work, both as a hired professional and as a passionate dreamer. In addition, I was Time magazine's person of the year in 2006.

Latest Projects


Initial Conditions

Initial Conditions Unity C#

A gravity-simulation based game for PC/web/mobile. Won 2nd place in Unity's July 2022 showcase

To the stars!

Projectiles

Squares from outer space! Unity C#

A simple space themed, pixel art action game

Get those squares!

DigitRecognition

ML based digit recognition scikit-learn Python

A simple demo of training and implementing a ML model for digit recognition + image processing. I've used scikit-learn trained on the MNIST 784 dataset and CV2 for image processing

1 2 3 let's go!

Shalman

Shalman - What are you paying for? Plotly Node JS

An approxmation of how your tax Shekels are spent. Currently relevant for Israeli paychecks only
Based on the Open-Budget initiative and implemented in NodeJS for the challenge

Read'em and weep

Game of Life

Conway's Game Of Life JS Go!

An implementation of the famous simulation - see how a few simple mathematical rules can create a beautiful dynamic.
Implemented this in both Go! and Javascript just for the challenge

Sounds cool!


QWERTY text converter

QWERTY text converter ASP.NET core C#

Did you know people spend an average of a gazzilion-bazillion hours yearly accidently typing entire scentences in the wrong language? Well, no more! Follow the link below to convert your gibbersih back to its actual meaning

Just what I was looking for

OCR

Optical Character Recognition Tesseract Python

Upload any (reasonable quality) text image/document and let my code do the rest. This implementation utilizes Tesseract and Python

You mean OCR?

Other Projects / Notable Achievements

Anyway@Hasadna

Hasadna (Public knowledge workshop) is an open source project(s) intended to make public knowledge, usually generated by government agencies, more accessible. I have been volunteering in one of it's projects - Anyway, since August 2021. This effort aims to reduce traffic accidents by fetching, indexing and analyzing road accidents data as well as making it more accessible to users (reporters among them)

Anyway on Github

Vagabond

In my spare time, I've single handedly conceptualized, designed and built a travel guide app for backpackers. This 2-year process included learning development for Android, as well as design, from scratch, integrating various technologies & APIs to a single project, building server-side support and eventually creating a deliverable product. Demo available upon request.

Textalyzer

A "breathalyzer" for text messages to be used by law enforcement officials to combat distracted driving - One of Cellebrite's most talked about concept products. The task of creating a functional POC was assigned to me, and included extensive research and collaboration with other teams and departments in several locations worldwide. This MVP has been demoed to law makers in the US, raking in complements as well as many potential purchase deals.

Press release

Completed the Google foobar challenge

After being approached by Google, solved their infamous foobar challenge

See for yourself

Work Experience

Software Engineer, Microsoft Cloud for Finance - Microsoft (Aug 2020 - Present)

Implementing intelligent scheduling mechanism for FSI as part of Microsoft's cloud for finance solution. This included tightly working with PMs and various stakeholders from other teams to design and implement an wholesome, E2E scheduling solution for customers and bank agents.

Software Engineer, Recommendations - Microsoft (Oct 2018 – Aug 2020)

Developing in C# alongside A-player programmers in Microsoft's recommendations team, my responsibilities included:

  • Developing and maintaining internet-scaled, low latency classic backend code. This included trafficking & proxy logic, business logic and IO layer
  • Developing, deploying and maintaining features and microservices on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform, as well as internal dev tools
  • Integrating with other teams across the globe to allow our service to be mounted on other platforms

Lead Developer (First employee) - Cyberwrite (Jul 2017 – Apr 2018)

My responsibilities included:

  • Using Python (Django) and Ansible, writing and maintaining an AWS mounted mid-scale data collection operation, which utilizes a range of tools including web scrapers and 3rd party APIs
  • Collaborating with and managing a small remote development team in the process of specifying, designing and implementing a deliverable web application
  • Implementing and integrating statistical models, written in R and Python, into the final product, in cooperation with Cyberwrite's chief actuary

Senior Researcher/Developer - Cellebrite (Nov 2014 – Jul 2017)

Writing parsers in both C# and Python, which extract information from mobile devices (Android, iPhone & Windows phone). This includes extraction of information stored in the device's file system, i.e, SQLite databases, preference files etc., as well as reverse engineering of specific apps' compiled code and hacking of the apps' internal logic.
In addition to ongoing work as a programmer/researcher, I oversaw planning & managing of Cellebrite's forensics decoding team's activities and workflow.