- 📖 I'm Sivan Ratson, a Torah scholar (Avrech) based in Israel.
- 💻 A passionate technologist sitting at the intersection of eternal wisdom and cutting-edge code.
- 🔗 My mission is to elevate Torah study by bridging the worlds of timeless Jewish texts and modern innovation.
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📚 Otzaria
I am the creator and lead developer of Otzaria, a modern digital library bringing Jewish texts to every device. The app serves thousands of daily active users and continues to grow organically.
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🤖 End-to-End LLM Ecosystem
I am currently architecting and deploying a comprehensive production-grade AI system, taking a holistic product engineering approach.
- Full Stack Architecture: Building the entire pipeline from Model Context Protocols (MCP) on the backend to intuitive React components on the frontend.
- Product & UI/UX Engineering: Crafting user-centric interfaces and workflows, bridging technical capabilities with thoughtful interaction design to deliver seamless experiences.
- Deployment: Managing the full deployment lifecycle for complex, multi-component systems.
- Real-World Impact: This system is actively used by Torah book editors for smart and deep researching, advanced text editing, content refinement, and automated index generation.
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🔎 AI R&D
I am developing cutting-edge applications of ML and LLMs specifically for the Torah world:
- Semantic search using vector databases.
- OCR for ancient Hebrew scripts.
- Agentic RAG workflows.
- Check out my models and activity on Hugging Face.
- 🎓 Exceptional Autodidact: I possess a disciplined self-taught ability, mastering complex technologies without formal graduation but with relentless curiosity.
- 🎨 Product Engineering & UI/UX: Bridging the gap between technical implementation and user experience, I design and build products with a keen eye for intuitive interfaces, user workflows, and end-to-end product thinking.
- 👨💻 Languages: While I have a background in C, C++, Java, and C#, my current focus is on:
- Python: For Data Science, AI, and backend logic.
- Dart: For cross-platform GUI applications.
- TypeScript/React: For modern web interfaces.
- 🧠 AI & ML: Deep expertise in Python libraries (Pandas, Sklearn, PyTorch), Transformers, fine-tuning models, and orchestrating LLMs as autonomous agents.