Barak Tal

I build AI products end to end, working on LLM agents, evaluation, RAG and fine-tuning, and the full-stack applications around them.

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Focus
Agents, evals, RAG, LLM products
Stack
LangGraph, Claude, OpenAI, PyTorch, FastAPI, React
Now
Business Analyst, EY-Parthenon
Education
Reichman University, GPA 91

Open to

  • AI Product Manager
  • AI Engineer
  • Forward Deployed Engineer

Selected work

Stage

A mobile app for a Tel Aviv training studio. Every finished workout becomes an Instagram story card with the studio logo, so each trainee post advertises the studio. Built with Claude Code, for a real client.

Product and growth, client work Case study →
Stage workout story card with total kilograms lifted and personal records

Gate Vision

Shipped for a Bay Area gate installer: specs become a dimensioned, branded drawing plus a photorealistic AI render on the customer’s own house photo.

Generative, client work Case study →
Gate Vision render of a gate on a customer’s house

Teach Me This File

An AI tutor that turns a file and a teacher prompt into a Socratic chat, in Hebrew or English. The plan lives in app state, sources come from the plan, scans go to a vision model, and a 16-scenario eval with a judge model checks the tutor.

Education AI, live Case study →
Teach Me This File tutor chat

Intent Analysis System

Production pipeline evaluating AI pentesting agents from conversation traces - Sentence-BERT pre-scoring, Claude structured extraction and LLM-as-judge calibration against human ratings.

Evals, Terra Security Case study →
Intent Analysis System screenshot

Lightning - Fantasy GM Agent

A LangGraph + Claude agent that reasons over live Yahoo Fantasy data to recommend NBA trades and waiver pickups. Shipped end-to-end with LangSmith evals as a pre-ship quality gate.

Agentic AI, live Read case study →
Lightning - Fantasy GM Agent landing page

Hebrew sentiment classification

LoRA fine-tuned DictaBERT on 43.6k examples, outperforming GPT-4o zero/few-shot and RAG baselines. Plus a GPT-style transformer built from scratch in PyTorch.

ML research, NLP Case study →
Hebrew sentiment classification results

World Cup 2026 Forecast

Reproduction of a published soccer-ranking paper, extended into a Monte-Carlo forecast of the 2026 World Cup using half-life weighted Poisson models and squad market values.

Forecasting, course project Case study →
World Cup 2026 forecast

SDR Agent

Outbound agent that reads leads, drafts personalised emails and sends via Gmail API - with retry/backoff, send caps and a dry-run mode.

Autonomous agent, deployed Case study →
  • LangGraph
  • GPT-4 Turbo
  • Gmail API
  • Google Sheets

Experience

  • Build analytical models and dashboards for SaaS and technology companies, tracking ARR, NRR, churn and LTV across large datasets.
  • Turn complex datasets into decision-ready insights for senior stakeholders across multiple transaction diligence engagements.
  • Product analytics at an AI-driven cybersecurity startup.
  • Built the Intent Analysis System, an internal pipeline that evaluates the company’s AI pentesting agents from conversation traces.
  • Four analytics engines: intent distribution, satisfaction, a skill quadrant and a skill-gap recommender.
  • An LLM-as-judge step calibrated against human ratings.
  • Launched and ran a retail operation generating several hundred thousand NIS monthly.
  • Owned concept, pricing, logistics and team management.
  • GPA 91.
  • Coursework: Deep Learning, NLP, Machine Learning, Time Series Forecasting, Big Data, Network Analysis and Statistics.
  • Fine-tuned DictaBERT for Hebrew sentiment on 43,600 examples, beating GPT-4o zero-shot and few-shot baselines.
  • Combat soldier in Egoz; Basic Training Commander and Sergeant.
  • Completed a 3-month IAF pilot training course.

About

My background combines business analytics with hands-on AI engineering. At EY-Parthenon I work with SaaS metrics such as ARR, churn and LTV; in my own projects I build and evaluate LLM agents. I try to bring both perspectives to product decisions.

AI & LLMs
LangGraph, Claude & OpenAI APIs, tool use, RAG, LoRA
Deep learning
PyTorch, transformers, attention, CNNs, LSTMs
Data
Python, SQL, Pandas, scikit-learn, Tableau, Power BI