Shai Kalev

Lead a dual mandate at DraftKings: a Unity platform team building the shared framework and reusable packages that internal and third-party studios build games, and a game team shipping unannounced title as the first production game against that architecture — proving it under real development conditions before wider studio rollout.

Directed the architecture and deployment of a unified cloud platform powering multiple generative-AI services for real-time voice, music, and 3D content creation. Guided a small engineering team through production development, technical decisions, and hiring.

• Architected a Unified Multi-Service Platform: Designed a consistent API and orchestration framework for inference workers, standardizing logging and deployment practices across AI pipelines.
• Deployed GPU-Accelerated Inference Services: Implemented Docker-based GPU build and release pipelines on RunPod with scalable deployment and hardware validation for reliable production performance.
• Integrated Native Mobile Authentication Bridges: Built Unity-native SDK bridges for iOS and Android to enable secure user authentication and platform service access within mobile builds.
• Prototyped Generative AI Workflows: Built gameplay and creative prototypes combining real-time generative audio, procedural assets, and 3D model generation.
• Technical Leadership: Mentored engineers, defined best practices, and participated in candidate evaluation to build a high-performance, collaborative team.

A self-directed macOS productivity tool for identifying and acting on time-sensitive trading opportunities.

• SwiftUI Application Architecture: Built natively in SwiftUI using Swift Concurrency for responsive UI and real-time data updates.
• Data Persistence & Sync: Integrated SwiftData and CloudKit for secure, synchronized storage across macOS devices.
• AI-Assisted Development: Architected and developed the entire system solo, using multiple generative AI agents to accelerate implementation from concept to MVP in under two weeks.
• Automated Trading Workflow: Built a real-time workflow that transforms noisy chat data into actionable trading signals with immediate user alerts.