Saar Reshef
Senior Applied AI Engineer | GIS / Satellite Imagery Developer | Full Stack & Native Apple Apps
Summary
Applied AI engineer, ~9 years across GIS, full stack, and AI. I build products on my own, from a blank repo to something live in prod. Lately that means automation that runs itself, native Apple apps in Swift/SwiftUI, full stack web, and satellite (SAR/InSAR) pipelines. Around 24 products have shipped, all on a GIS and full stack foundation.
Skills
AI & Agents: AI Agents · Agentic systems · AI Automation · RAG · Prompt Engineering · LLM orchestration (multi model) · Anthropic / Claude · OpenAI / GPT · Apple Foundation Models (on device) · MCP · Whisper · Machine Learning
GIS / Remote Sensing: GIS · QGIS · Remote Sensing · SAR · InSAR (SBAS) · Sentinel 1/2 · Rasterio · GeoPandas · GDAL · PostGIS · QField · Agisoft Metashape · Photogrammetry · Classical Computer Vision
Engineering: Python · Swift / SwiftUI (iOS / iPadOS / macOS) · TypeScript / JavaScript · Node.js · Express / REST APIs · React · PostgreSQL · HTML / CSS · HealthKit · StoreKit · Siri Shortcuts
Data / ML: scikit-learn · Random Forest · XGBoost · LightGBM · Model tuning · Train / held out validation · R² · Feature engineering · Data analysis · BI dashboards
Cloud / Infra: Linux VPS (Hetzner) · systemd · GitHub Actions (CI/CD) · Self hosted · Server side browser automation · Event driven architecture
Product / Design: Business Development · Market Research · SaaS / subscription · UI/UX Design (diploma) · Illustrator · Photoshop · Premiere / After Effects
Projects
AI Agents & Automation
- A feedback button in the app hands a Claude agent everything it needs to work an issue: it triages the ticket, folds in duplicates, then pushes the fix straight to staging. 273 resolved so far, running 3 to 4× more fixes than before.
- I run my whole dev environment from my phone off a single €19/mo VPS: I code through Telegram Claude Code, an overnight runner clears tasks while I sleep, and a headless Chrome sits on the server for the agent to drive.
- Built a task system where tasks open straight from system events and close themselves once the work actually lands, so nobody updates a status by hand. 4,278 tracked, with cycle times the team can actually trust.
Also: linked markdown agent knowledge base (RAG, 2,579 wikilinks) · autonomous meeting agent (Whisper + WhatsApp actions) · agentic A/B testing (model tuning 30 to 60d → 4 to 7d) · autonomous job hunter agent (8+ platforms) · AI writing humanizer (27 detectors) · 20+ autonomous content bots (~€3/mo).
GIS, Geospatial & Satellite
- Replaced a 14 day, 2 operator manual GIS workflow with one automated processing graph, cutting it to 3 days (~78% faster, 2 FTE cut).
- Oil storage monitoring from space. Built a SAR/InSAR pipeline on Sentinel 1 and SBAS that reads global oil inventory from orbit, tracking each tank roof to mm level across 332 tanks in a single automated run.
- Four years of solo research into predicting crop N/P/K straight from imagery with no lab tests: random forest, XGBoost and LightGBM, held out validated, wired into an imagery to app pipeline.
Also: 3D orchard tree segmentation (classical CV by canopy shape, no retraining) · wheat yield estimation from imagery · Sofia property growth intelligence · global agro market intelligence (FAOstat, 5 countries / 49 crops) · aerial mapping coverage CRM.
Native Apple Apps
- Lumutrix, "the Cursor AI of GIS". A SwiftUI app where the agent runs real Python (Rasterio, GeoPandas) on device, right over your live map, 60 to 80% faster on the tasks it covers, and private since nothing leaves the phone.
- Shipped Spotlight, my native iPhone and iPad app live on the App Store. It ranks city areas by what matters to you and paints per category density heatmaps. Describe the trip in plain words and Apple Intelligence picks the categories.
- Built BunnyBite, a native SwiftUI nutrition tracker. Apple Foundation Models and a routing layer to Apple Intelligence's ChatGPT extension removed server inference and API cost. This lets its free tier match competitors' paid features, while its paid tier can offer more value at the same price. Verified the provider and model per request.
Experience
Senior Applied AI Engineer · Fast TrackJul 2026 to Sep 2026
Built complex systems that combined agentic workflows and LLM components, working directly with stakeholders and independently owning large parts of the system. Contributed to company-wide AI adoption, including long-horizon agent execution and AI image generation for marketing.
Reshef AviationNov 2020 to Jul 2026
Ran R&D and IT as CTO (Aug 2024 to Jul 2026), owned the GIS tooling and the company app, built the crop analysis ML models (N/P/K, yield, tree segmentation), and cut client turnaround from 14 days to 3. Before that led growth as VP Business Development & Innovation (May 2022 to Feb 2023), representing the company at international trade shows, and came up through GIS Specialist (Nov 2020 to Aug 2024) building the GIS models and scripts behind the company's precision farming analysis.
Chief Technology Officer · VeleresMar 2026 to Jul 2026
After Reshef Aviation's aerial operations paused, built Veleres's full satellite platform in 3 days, from branding and web apps to geospatial processing, S3, and infrastructure. Two months later, the Philippine government invited Veleres to discuss the service for business development, followed by government and large private-sector activity.
Founder · VerxosAug 2025 to Feb 2026
Automation, AI agents, and satellite intelligence products (incl. the SAR/InSAR oil inventory pipeline).
Full Stack Developer · FreelanceApr 2022 to Jan 2026
Shipped client web apps in React, Node.js and PostgreSQL.
Web Developer · SR Web & DesignSep 2017 to Nov 2020
Started my full stack work here.
Education & Certifications
InSAR Processing & Analysis (ISCE+), EarthScope GAGE/SAGE, 2025 (~40h) · React - The Complete Guide, Udemy, 2026 (71h) · Java Masterclass, Udemy, 2026 (135h) · Complete Web Developer, Udemy, 2024 (39h) · UI Design Diploma, Institute of Technology & Innovation, 2019 (80h). Otherwise self taught in software engineering, GIS/remote sensing, and machine learning.