Avi Kahana, Technology Leader & Founding AI Engineer

About

Strategy meets hands-on engineering

I'm a hands-on technology leader and founding engineer with 20+ years 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.”

20+Years in tech

40+Enterprise integrations

GlobalOEM & R&D partners

Experience

Career timeline

2026 - Present

Founding AI Engineer

B2B SaaS Security · Stealth

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, prioritization and resolution using tool-calling, embeddings and domain-specific RAG.
Built and maintained 40+ enterprise integrations across ticketing, SIEM, IdP, EDR, cloud-security and communication platforms with durable, resilient pipelines.

2023 - 2025

Technology Consultant & Principal Advisor

AviTech.Technology

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.

2017 - 2023

Technology Lead, Automotive & Cloud Infrastructure

Via Transportation

Directed cross-functional global teams delivering connected-vehicle platforms for OEMs and enterprise clients.
Architected real-time fleet telemetry systems and cloud-native CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS) for mobility data services.
Led PoC pilots and technical demos with OEM partners (Daimler, Mercedes-Benz) across Israel, Europe and the US.

2016 - 2017

Senior Software Engineer / R&D Lead

Click2Speak

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.

2011 - 2016

Automation & Infrastructure Development Manager

Trusteer / IBM Security

Led a global team of 10 engineers building automation and lab infrastructure for anti-phishing and malware-protection systems.
Architected secure, scalable automation-as-a-service frameworks integrated with QA and R&D pipelines (Selenium, LoadRunner, WireShark).

2008 - 2011

Automation Developer / QA Engineer

QualiTest Group · Intel (WiMAX)

Built automation tools and testing frameworks for WiMAX wireless technology and embedded communication systems.

M.Sc. Technology ManagementHolon Institute of Technology (HIT) · 2014–2016

B.Sc. Computer ScienceClark University · 2007–2010

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

Portfolio

Projects & open source

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 40+ enterprise integrations.

LLM agentsRAGFastAPITemporalKubernetes

Connected-Vehicle Platforms

Via 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

Click2Speak

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

EmbeddedSensorsAccessibility

Automation & CI/CD Frameworks

Trusteer / IBM Security

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

Open source

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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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 Lecture

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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On this site

Meet Avi'sBot

That chat bubble in the corner is Avi'sBot, a small, grounded AI assistant Avi built for this site. Ask it about his experience, skills or projects and it answers from a curated knowledge base rather than the open web, so replies stay accurate and on-message. It's a working demo of the same agentic-AI engineering Avi does day to day.

What it does

Answers visitor questions about Avi's background, experience, skills and selected work in plain language, and points you to the contact form for anything outside what it knows.

How it works

Common questions are answered instantly from a hand-written FAQ. Anything else goes to a grounded LLM that may only draw on Avi's portfolio as its source of truth, with a server-side safety filter on every reply, retrieval-augmented generation, end to end.

How it's built

A serverless backend on Firebase Cloud Functions calls Claude (Anthropic) with prompt caching for speed and low cost, behind App Check and per-visitor rate limiting, the same production stack Avi uses in his work.

…or tap the chat bubble in the bottom-right corner anytime.

Contact

Let's connect

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LocationTel Aviv District, Israel