Avi Kahana, Technology Leader & Founding AI Engineer

About

Strategy meets hands-on engineering

I'm a hands-on technology leader and founding engineer with nearly two decades building production platforms, from Generative AI and B2B SaaS to connected mobility, IoT, cloud infrastructure and enterprise integrations.

I combine deep technical execution with strategic advisory: designing resilient systems, leading cross-functional engineering teams, and aligning technology with business goals from concept to production. My work spans three recurring themes:

Technology leadership & architecture, leading teams, designing systems, building PoCs, connecting engineering to business outcomes.

IoT, automotive & connected systems, connected vehicles, telematics, fleet platforms and OEM integrations.

Cybersecurity, automation & infrastructure, QA automation, CI/CD, security products and global engineering teams.

“My experience across a broad, diverse range of technologies and platforms has given me the ability to learn, adapt, and build new technologies quickly and intelligently.”

Nearly two decadesIn technology

Multi-platformEnterprise integrations

GlobalOEM & R&D partners

Portfolio

Projects & open source

Open source

Meet Avi'sBot

Live on this site

The chat bubble in the corner is a grounded AI assistant Avi built for this site. Ask it about his experience, skills or projects: a hand-written FAQ answers common questions instantly, and everything else goes to Claude (Anthropic) on Firebase Cloud Functions, answering only from a curated knowledge base, with prompt caching, App Check and per-visitor rate limiting. A working demo of the agentic-AI engineering Avi does day to day.

Agentic AIRAGClaudeFirebase Functions

Or tap the chat bubble in the bottom-right corner anytime.

Grounded AI Chat Widget

Open source · MIT

A reusable, retrieval-augmented chat widget: a hand-written FAQ layer in front of a knowledge-base-grounded LLM with prompt caching and a server-side safety filter. The same architecture that powers Avi'sBot on this site.

LLMRAGFirebase FunctionsPrompt caching

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Verified Contact Form

Open source · MIT

A double-opt-in contact form built for spam resistance: single-use SHA-256 magic-link tokens, App Check, per-IP and per-email rate limiting and a honeypot, the same flow behind the contact form on this site.

Double opt-inFirebase FunctionsFirestoreSecurity

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Agentic RAG + RAGOps

Open source · In progress

Production-shaped retrieval-augmented generation over a corpus too large to context-stuff: a router agent, hybrid retrieval (BM25 + vector search with rank fusion and reranking) and a grounded answer agent with citations, plus an evaluation harness that measures each retrieval strategy.

RAGHybrid retrievalMulti-agentEvalsPython

Token Optimizer

Open source · Apache-2.0 · PyPI

Local-first context-hygiene CLI for AI coding sessions: inspect context bloat, summarize explicit files, generate lightweight handoffs, and benchmark context-shaping workflows. No default network calls, no daemon, dry-run first.

PythonCLILLM contextPyPI

View source On PyPI

Professional work

AI-Powered SecOps Automation

Founding AI Engineer · Current

Multi-tenant B2B SaaS that automates security-ticket triage, investigation and resolution with agentic LLM workflows, RAG and enterprise integrations across ticketing, SIEM, IdP and cloud-security platforms.

LLM agentsRAGFastAPITemporalKubernetes

Connected-Vehicle Platforms

Mobility & Transportation

Real-time fleet telemetry and connected-vehicle data platforms integrating OEM data layers and IoT infrastructure, delivered with OEM partners across three continents.

TelematicsCAN/OBDAWSKubernetesOEM

Accessibility Interfaces

Assistive Technology

Sensor-driven accessibility interfaces using infrared, cameras and microcontrollers, pioneering low-cost inclusive keyboard access from existing hardware.

EmbeddedSensorsAccessibility

Automation & CI/CD Frameworks

Enterprise Cybersecurity

Secure, scalable automation-as-a-service frameworks and lab infrastructure for testing anti-phishing and malware-protection systems, built with a global team.

SeleniumCI/CDSecurity testingLab automation

Personal & speaking

Smart Home & IoT Lab

Personal R&D

Home Assistant on Raspberry Pi with connected devices, an Arduino + AWS IoT Core relay project, and reverse-engineering a Domex smart-home controller.

Home AssistantArduinoAWS IoT CoreReverse engineering

Smart Mobility & Infrastructure

Public talk

Delivered a public lecture on Smart Mobility and Smart Cities as part of the Israeli Teachers' Training Program on sustainability.

Smart CitiesMobilitySustainability

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Career

Professional experience

Founding AI Engineer

B2B SaaS Security

Building a multi-tenant, AI-powered SecOps automation platform, Python/FastAPI backend, React/TypeScript frontend, Temporal workflows, MongoDB and Kubernetes.
Designing agentic LLM workflows for security-ticket triage, investigation and resolution with specialized typed-output agents, tiered model routing across OpenAI and Anthropic models, and domain-specific RAG with vector search inside the platform's primary data store.
Extending agents through a shared agent-builder abstraction and a declarative skills system spanning RAG, IAM, source control and cloud tooling, designed for plug-and-play reuse across workflows.
Built and maintained enterprise integrations across ticketing, SIEM, IdP, EDR, cloud-security and communication platforms with durable, resilient pipelines.

Technology Consultant & Principal Advisor

Strategy & Architecture

Provided strategic technology advisory to startups and enterprises across IoT, AI, mobility, cloud and cybersecurity.
Designed innovation roadmaps and MVP architectures; architected multi-cloud and edge infrastructure on AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker and Terraform.
Authored technical proposals and business cases that secured R&D incentives, alliances and investment approvals.
Built and shipped the avitech.technology platform end to end on Firebase, Node.js Cloud Functions and a grounded AI assistant.

Technology Lead, Automotive & Cloud Infrastructure

Mobility & Connected Vehicles

Built a SaaS fleet-management product from the ground up, leading every stage from planning and architecture through POC, build and integration, with APIs connected directly to electric vehicles and to partner fleet-management systems; the product grew into one of the company's leading offerings.
Architected real-time fleet telemetry and connected-vehicle platforms integrating OEM data layers, IoT infrastructure and cloud-native CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS).
Built innovation POCs for rider and driver in-vehicle experiences, deploying check-in and next-stop screens in live ride-sharing vans, and exhibited selected POCs at the IAA 2018 auto show with a global OEM innovation group.
Led PoC pilots, architecture reviews and technical demos with global OEM partners across Israel, Europe and the US.
Drove new service integrations with customers and partners, from kick-scooter fleets to a major US school-bus service.

Senior Software Engineer / R&D Lead

Accessibility & Assistive Technology

Developed sensor-driven accessibility interfaces using infrared, cameras and microcontrollers on embedded systems.
Pioneered low-cost accessibility solutions and led product planning from requirements to roadmap.

Automation & Infrastructure Development Manager

Enterprise Cybersecurity

Conceived, designed and built the automation infrastructure from the ground up as a self-driven initiative, planning, executing and integrating it end to end while staying hands-on in Python and C#/.NET.
Built and hired the team, and personally drove adoption across security research and R&D teams, handling integration, support and training.
Architected secure, scalable automation-as-a-service frameworks and VMware-based lab infrastructure reproducing customer and threat environments for anti-phishing and malware-protection testing (Selenium, LoadRunner, WireShark); defined coding standards, testing approach and release processes, enabling faster, safer release cycles.

Automation Developer / QA Engineer

Wireless & Embedded Systems

Co-developed the company's flagship automation product and led its rollout and integration at client sites.
Built automation tools and testing frameworks for WiMAX wireless technology and embedded communication systems.
Carried out networking testing across enterprise and embedded communication systems.

Education

Academic background

M.Sc. Technology ManagementHolon Institute of Technology (HIT)

B.Sc. Computer ScienceClark University

Computer Hardware & NetworkingMaof College

Automotive & Electronic EngineeringCollege of Engineering Kadoorie

Skills

Technical toolkit

AI & Software Engineering

Generative AI

Building production LLM features, agentic workflows, RAG and tool-calling, into real SaaS products.

LLM applicationsOpenAIAnthropicAI agents & tool-callingRAGEmbeddingsSemantic searchPrompt & skill engineeringWorkflow automation

Programming & Full Stack

Building software end-to-end, microservices, REST APIs and React front-ends, across multiple languages.

PythonFastAPIGoJavaJavaScriptTypeScriptReactC#REST APIsMicroservices

Data & APIs

Modeling and moving data at scale, relational, NoSQL and streaming, behind clean, well-integrated APIs.

PostgreSQLMongoDBRedisDynamoDBClickHouseElasticsearchKafkaWebhooks

Cloud & Operations

Cloud & Infrastructure

Architecting cloud-native infrastructure as code, containers, Kubernetes and multi-cloud deployments.

AWSGCPKubernetesDockerHelmTerraformArgo CDServerlessVMware

DevOps & SRE

Automating delivery and keeping systems observable and reliable, CI/CD, monitoring and incident response.

CI/CDJenkinsGitHub ActionsGitLab CIPrometheusGrafanaLokiOpenTelemetryIncident response

Connected Systems & Security

IoT & Connected Systems

Connecting vehicles, sensors and edge devices to the cloud through real-time telemetry.

IoT CoreMQTTEdge telemetryCAN-BusOBD-IITelematicsConnected vehiclesEmbedded

Networking & Security

Securing systems and traffic end-to-end, Zero Trust, encryption and SecOps automation.

VPN / IPSecTLSZero TrustCloud VPCTCP/IPSecOps automationTraffic analysis

Leadership

Leadership & Strategy

Leading cross-functional R&D and turning innovation strategy into shipped products and proofs-of-concept.

Cross-functional leadershipR&D alignmentStakeholder managementInnovation strategyPoC executionMentorship

Posts

Notes & posts

Contact

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LocationTel Aviv District, Israel