Hi, I'm Gilad Wein

I build things, help people grow, and play drums.

I'm a self-learner, and I build what interests me — full platforms end to end, data systems that run themselves, OOAKY, a marketplace that has been live for years, and now ArtSEE, defense tech born out of my reserve duty in the artillery corps. I also teach: I help engineers get more efficient and feel good at what they do.

Gilad Wein smiling on a rooftop above a white village and green mountains

13+ years building software and data systems

40M monthly users on a data ecosystem I designed

10s of TB a month through a platform I built

Dozens of AI agents in production

What I'm building

ArtSEE

Co-founder · Entrepreneur

A defense-tech SaaS platform for artillery operations — turning work that still runs on paper and memory into data units can act on. It comes from problems I hit first-hand as a fire-control NCO during reserve service.

  • Defense tech
  • Patent pending
  • Built from the field

Things I've built

OOAKY

Creator & builder · live for years

A social marketplace for one-of-a-kind handmade and vintage goods. Sellers open a free shop in minutes and import their items; buyers browse categories, follow shops and discover curated collections. I built the platform end to end, and it has been in production and in use for years.

  • Marketplace
  • In production
  • Built end to end
Visit ooaky.com

How I work

Systems that run themselves

Pipelines that recover on their own, alert before anyone notices, and stay cheap as data grows. Manual work gets automated, not documented.

AI-first, with judgment

I build with Claude Code, Codex and Cursor every day, and run agents that investigate and fix production issues. The skill is knowing when the AI is wrong.

Full platforms, end to end

Architecture, infrastructure, DevOps, backend and frontend — I build the whole platform, whatever the product needs.

Making engineers better

I teach tech and mentor engineers to work more efficiently, judge AI output, and build things the right way — until they trust their own judgment and feel good at what they do.

It's all about being human. Being happy, active and proactive. Being who I am, doing what really interests me, and always trying new things.

Experience

  1. 2025 – now

    Alison AI · Senior Data Engineer

    Built the company's data platform from scratch: self-managed on Kubernetes with Argo Workflows and ArgoCD, tens of TBs a month into BigQuery. Run dozens of AI agents on logs and alerts, and kept the app stable with dozens of PRs merged daily.

  2. 2023 – 2025

    Triple Whale · Senior Data Engineer

    Planned and built the new data system on GCP with BigQuery and ClickHouse, orchestrated with Temporal: revertible, self-recovering, built for huge volumes at controlled cost. Automated 100% of manual operations.

  3. 2021 – 2023

    Roundforest · Senior Data Engineer

    Designed and built a new data ecosystem for 40M monthly users — serverless on GCP with BigQuery, dbt and Looker — with data quality, anomaly detection and cost guardrails built in.

  4. 2017 – 2020

    Tailormed · Senior Backend Engineer

    Microservices on AWS in a HIPAA-compliant environment; ETL and integrations with hospital systems.

  5. 2013 – 2017

    Earlier

    Founder & CTO of MusikWay, a music startup where I built 90% of the product; first developer at Shupperz; full-stack developer at Mount Carmel Health System.

Behind the kit

I'm a drummer and a certified music producer (LFO School). Timing, feel and nothing wasted — it's how I think about systems too.

Gilad's Groove on YouTube
Gilad playing drums in a studio

Background

Artillery corps

Fire-control NCO with extensive reserve duty. It's where ArtSEE started.

Mathematics

B.Sc. in Mathematics in progress at the Open University, alongside structured self-study in applied math.

Music production

Certified producer from LFO School for Music Production.

Let's talk

Investors, partners, teams who need a data platform that holds up — I'm happy to talk.