Lior Harel is a VP of Engineering focused on AI with 14 years of experience turning early ideas into production-grade products and teams. He co-founded and led Staircase AI as CTO, building real-time customer-interaction intelligence using in-house and foundation models, and now applies that expertise at Gainsight. Lior combines hands-on architecture and DevOps mastery—especially on AWS—with deep strengths in web analytics, tracking, and security compliance (HIPAA, SOC2). He has a track record of founding R&D teams (hibob, StuffThatWorks) and scaling engineering organizations while keeping a culture of quality and observability. Comfortable writing core code and defining long-term technical strategy, he bridges product, ML, and infra to ship robust, scalable systems. Based in Tel Aviv with a computer engineering degree from Technion, he’s equally known for pragmatic engineering as for turning complex data signals into actionable product features.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer engineering, BSc Computer engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Contributions:3 releases, 40 commits, 16 PRs in 2 years 3 months
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