What’s this page about?
As I attempt to withdraw more and more away from social media, I find more
and more cool personal sites. I found a now page in a few of them and thought
that it’s a good idea. See what is a “now page”?.
Last updated on October 16th, 2025.
Now
Californiacation
We have emigrated to California, touched down in March, and moved into a less- temporary apartment in May.
Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.
– Edgar Allan Poe
Wow, California. The Bay Area is something else. The nature is crazy beautiful.
Many Israelis, and we’re part of a synagogue for the kindergarten. So not too lonely or alienating.
Moving away from friends and family is difficult and sad. We’re missing out on big parts of their lives, and they’re missing out on ours. We’ve kept a WhatsApp feed with weekly updates; This week will be update #32.
AI is a BIG thing in the Bay Area. The meetups, the billboards, the people, the self-driving taxis. It’s all very exciting. It stands in stark contrast to the homeless encampment I pass by every day on my way to work. The US is messed up in that regard and I’m having a hard time reconciling the two sides of the coin.
Professional
In January, I’ve joined Opsin Security as one of the founding engineers, teaming up with old team member again to build a cybersecurity startup again. So far I’ve had a great experience. It’s a good company with good bones, we’re building a useful product in an exciting space, and the Bay Area is the room where it happens for this stuff. The pendulum of Management to IC has swung back to IC for me, but I think it’s a good time to be an IC.
Starting a startup again is a lot of work and requires a lot of focus, so I’ve had to decide what to keep and what to drop in the professional sphere. I’ve been writing less public blogs, but going more to meetups and learning more.
I’m still co-hosting weekly episodes of the Cup o’ Go 🎧 podcast together with Jonathan Hall. I’ve also kicked the tires on the local Go meetup group: GoSF. With one successful meetup already hosted, I’m looking forward to the next one next week.
I’ve also re-started working on Shay Nehmad Software, my consultation business. Unsurprisingly most of my work there was LLM-related. Honestly to me it feels like everything is AI-related now, maybe too much so. Did someone say 🫧?!
Anyways, the data pipelines and products I’ve been working on seem to actually benefit my clients and LLMs are a big part of how they work.
Personal
As we’re settling in here, our lifestyle has drastically changed towards focus and minimalism. After an incredibly hectic and emotional move, we’re finding our rhythm. It’s quieter here. More time to hike, camp, play music, read, explore, meet new people, and just sorta be ourselves.
We’ve been following the news about the war closely. Personally, I’m relieved that the US intervened, returned the hostages home 🎗️, and stopped the bleeding. I am carefully pessimistic about the future; my best guess is a few years of “quiet” before things start back up again. After all, that’s how I lived my whole life so far.
Previous updates
Here are the previous updates, in reverse chronological order. Not sure why I’m keeping them or why you’d care, but since it does exist in git commits, might as well keep it here.
January 6th, 2025
New adventures
The last months have been a lot, most of which was hard and positive. With the new year comes new adventures for my family and me.
Professional
I’ve left Orca yesterday, as of writing this. I have a new thing coming with an old friend - joining an early stage startup as one of the founding engineers.
Personal
The new thing includes a big change; relocating to the Bay Area, California. Big change, exciting, and scary. Right now we’re in the middle of packing and taking care of bureaucratic stuff.
May 22nd, 2024
War
After last year ended with 3 months of reserve duty following October 7th, I’m “back to normal” - whatever that means while people are still kidnapped and friends are shipping off to the front lines.
Professional
My main professional focus is on Orca Security, where I’m now leading a small Engineering Enablement and Experience team. Combo of hands-on (fun!), architecture, L&D, team leadership, and more.
I’m also still co-hosting weekly episodes of the Cup o’ Go 🎧 podcast together with Jonathan Hall. This helps to keep me in the loop of what’s happening with Go, as I don’t do production development in it anymore. It’s also very rewarding and fun and I hope to keep it going. We have a few Patreon supporters which other than the direct support has really shifted my perspective on my value proposition for the world at large.
Shay Nehmad Software, my attempt at starting a consultation business, has been put on the back burner for now. That’s a shame but all my clients have been super gracious about it.
Personal
Personally, my main focus is family health and stability. We’ve gone through a few rough months. We have a beautiful 3 year old daughter, and she’s becoming smarter every day.
I’m (still) working on translating my grandfather’s book from Hebrew to English. I’m about 41% through the first pass.