Ofer Shapira

AI Engineering Lead at @Sticklight (By Elementor)

Tel Aviv District, Israel

About

Ex-Founder ($1.5M ARR) | AI, Product & Engineering | Ex Monday.com - Helping engineering organizations become AI-native - I lead AI Engineering for Sticklight at Elementor, helping shape a new way to build professional websites with AI. - Founded and scaled a bootstrapped SaaS company from $0 to $1.5M ARR and 40 employees, led teams at Via, and worked on growth at monday.com. - I like moving fast, staying hands-on, and turning messy ideas into working products. - 15+ years across startups and scaleups. Unit 8200 alumni. - Obsessed with practical AI, developer experience, automation, and building things people actually use. Visit my github profile (Already 50+ open-source projects): šŸ”— https://www.github.com/ofershap

Experience

  • Fullstack AI Engineer Team lead | AI Guild Manager at Elementor
    May 2025 - Present Ā· 1 yr 3 mos

    Leading the AI Engineering for Sticklight at Elementor + AI Guild Manager + (EX) AI Engineering developer and leader of Angie AI + Led Cursor adoption accross all the R&D (+100% adoption success rate) - Helping shape a new way to build professional websites with AI. - Driving product delivery, AI adoption, and cross-functional execution across engineering and product We use: AI/ML, OpenAI, Claude, Langfuse, Nextjs, Nest, GCP, Postgres DB, MongoDB, Cursor IDE, Claude Code, Codex, Superset, ADK, Supabase, Sentry, MixPanel, Figma, Skills, Rules, Agents, Worktrees, MCP, LLM, RAG Even my CV is in Sticklight! See yourself: https://ofer-shapira.sticklight.app

  • R&D Manager at Novidea
    Jun 2024 - May 2025 Ā· 1 yr

    Squad lead of a full stack team in insurtech industry, focusing on policy and claims management for brokers. We develop Java, Apex and JS LWC over Salesforce PaaS. * Led Cursor AI IDE adoption in the R&D * Led the Team leads round-table meetings in the R&D

  • Software Engineering Team Lead at Via
    Jan 2023 - Jun 2024 Ā· 1 yr 6 mos

    FE Team lead of the Via Operation Center product, in the Transit-tech field. Leading the product development of the SaaS product for vehicles operators Leading Agile sprints, integrations with backend teams, working closely with product & design We use React.js with Typescript over Module federation infrastructure and Lokalize for multilanguage support

  • Senior Full Stack Growth Engineer at monday.com
    Jan 2021 - Dec 2022 Ā· 2 yrs

    Full stack developer in an autonomous Growth squad at monday.com, focused on marketer-facing acquisition and conversion initiatives across monday.com and WorkForms Team of 5 roles: dev, design, product, analytics, marketing We were KPI-led, with a mission to move the needle & improve the onboarding funnel using a/b tests, hypothesis brainstorming, user interviews, and product increments

  • Head of R&D & Co-Founder at DSM Tool (Acquired by AutoDS)
    Jul 2016 - Nov 2020 Ā· 4 yrs 5 mos

    From $0 to +$1.5M ARR within 3 years! Founded a bootstrap company that reached 40 workers at its top in the e-commerce industry. Leading the product, head of Innovation & business strategist, VP R&D / CTO. DSM Tool has crossed 200,000 signups and managed +15k active eBay sellers. Buzzwords: Agile, SaaS, Roadmaps, KPI, Frameworks, Acquisition, Retention, B2B, eBay, e-commerce http://www.dsmtool.com