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Itai Sagi

Founding CEO, MicroAI Ventures · Principal Software Engineer

Israel

Summary

Self-taught developer, gamer, and geek with an entrepreneurial spirit. I love building scalable, beautifully designed products — inwards and outwards — that work and engage. Always interested in learning more, be it software, marketing, or ping-pong.

Experience

Clarity

Principal Software Developer

March 2025 — November 2025 · Tel Aviv District, Israel

Company shut down its gates in November 2025.

On the Purchase Management domain, focused on strengthening and expanding the product. Identified opportunities to clean and enrich incoming data, improving reliability of purchase management reporting and ultimately leading the development of a new product matching system that improved detection accuracy over the previous solution.

AWS LambdaNode.jsTypeScriptVueMongoDBVector embeddingsClickHouseOpenAI

Versatile

Principal Software Engineer · R&D Manager

June 2019 — June 2024 · 5 years 1 month

Architected, led and developed many initiatives at Versatile, building the engineering foundation behind CraneView — the IoT-and-AI-powered crane sensor platform.

Reporting

CraneView Reporting System

Built and scaled the reporting backbone that became core to Versatile's offering.

Bootstrapped

Jobsite Scheduling

Bootstrapped Versatile's jobsite scheduling product — a vertically integrated scheduler tailored to construction.

Data Platform · TL

Data Lakehouse

Led the data lake effort — stakeholder buy-in, tech selection, and unblocking the team.

Org-wide

Product Analytics Pipeline

Centralized event in-take, enrichment, and forwarding, minimizing event loss across web clients.

NodeJSPostgreSQLMySQLRedisTypeScriptReactFullCalendarPuppeteerOpenCVPowerBIDatabricksKafka

Gett

Software Team Lead · Software Developer

October 2015 — May 2019 · 3 years 8 months · Tel Aviv, Israel

Led the Demand-Side Services team — owning the consumer-facing ordering services across the rider stack. Scaled Gett's infrastructure for tens of millions of consumers and kept production healthy day-to-day.

RubyRailsGolangFirebasePostgreSQLMySQLRedis

Kobolo — Social Apartment Hunt

Co-Founder

December 2013 — January 2016 · Tel Aviv

Co-founded Kobolo, an apartment search platform used by tens of thousands of users across Israel. Mission: make rental search a breeze — convenient and faster than the status quo.

Cellebrite

J2EE Developer

November 2012 — November 2013

Worked on my.cellebrite (license issuance and self-service) and the Cellebrite reporting system used by devices in the field.

J2EESpringHibernateGWTWicketMavenAWS

MyCheck

Software Developer

April 2012 — December 2012 · Tel Aviv

Maintained and developed back-end infrastructure in PHP and Java, integrating with payment processors worldwide using security best practices. Co-authored a PCI-compliant solution processing online monetary transactions worth millions of NIS monthly.

PHPYiiJ2EESpringHibernateMySQLAxis2

Advanced Web Solutions

Fullstack Developer

March 2011 — May 2012

Built SEO-oriented tools — website scraping and process automation — and developed, modernized, and scaled new and existing projects, including mobile webapps and desktop sites.

PHPCodeIgniterMySQLJavaScriptjQueryBootstrap

Freelance Developer

Independent

2011 — 2012

Built projects and provided technological consultation across various business domains and technologies — mostly PHP, front-end, and Android.