Renan Bazinin

Full-stack developer in fintech. I build an AI assistant and its agent features. Outside work: research, open source and Forktown.

React TypeScript Node.js Python B.Sc. Computer Science, MTA

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Selected work

Current job first, then research and open source.

work

Enterprise AI assistant

Full-stack developer fintech Feb 2026 – present

The AI assistant employees use at work. I build its agent features and own them end to end, front end to back end.

  • AI agents
  • Full stack

More projects

Smaller things I built and keep online.

AI tools

Study tools

Apps and games

More on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

Research

Three co-authored papers from the FocusFlow and Creative Foraging projects.

  1. HAI '25

    Creative Foraging Game with AI: How Humans and AI Explore and Exploit Together

    S. Cohen, P. Smadja, R. Bazinin, R. Briq, L. Kashi, S. Levy, O. Lerner, M. Mashhadi, D. Shoshan, L. Noy

    13th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, poster paper, November 2025

    DOI, HAI '25 (opens in a new tab)AI-agent code, HAI '25 (opens in a new tab)
  2. SYSTOR '25Best Poster Award

    FocusFlow: A Real-Time Engagement System Enabled by Client-Side Inference

    R. Bazinin, S. Cohen, A. Gatker, J. Shaya

    18th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference, poster paper, September 2025

    DOI, SYSTOR '25 (opens in a new tab)Demo video, SYSTOR '25 (opens in a new tab)Code, SYSTOR '25 (opens in a new tab)
  3. AIED '25

    FocusFlow: AI-Driven Engagement Monitoring and Interaction for Educational Videos

    With Alona Gatker, Jonatan Shaya and Sarel Cohen

    International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Demo Track, Italy, July 2025

    Video, AIED '25 (opens in a new tab)

Awards

  • Sep 2025
    Best Poster Award, ACM SYSTOR 2025FocusFlow poster paper, with Sarel Cohen, Alona Gatker and Jonatan Shaya.
  • Jul 2025
    1st place, research and infrastructure track, MTA final-project exhibitionFocusFlow. The exhibition had about 70 projects.
  • Oct 2019
    Certificate of Excellence (Colonel's Award), IDF Medical CorpsFor my work as a platoon sergeant in an IDF clinic.
  • 2017
    2nd place, regional high-school hackathonOne of several hackathons I joined in high school.

Open source

Contributions to other people's projects, linked to the pull requests.

Experience

Work, research and service, newest first.

  1. Feb 2026 – Present

    Full-Stack Developer

    Fintech company

    • Develop an internal AI assistant (chatbot app) for the company's employees, front end and back end.
    • Build AI agent capabilities that take it beyond plain Q&A.
    • Own features end to end in a regulated environment, working with cross-functional teams.
  2. Sep 2025 – Feb 2026

    Software Developer and Research Assistant, nand2tetris Web IDE

    Reichman University

    • Teaching staff for the Nand to Tetris course; supported learners on Coursera.
    • 6 merged PRs to nand2tetris/web-ide (TypeScript + React): a React rewrite of the Bitmap Editor that generates Jack and Hack code, a Settings redesign, new tooltips and a Jack compiler fix.
    • Added the Bitmap Editor and File System guides.
    case study, Reichman University
  3. 2025 – 2026

    Software Engineer, Creative Action Lab

    Ono Academic College

    • Built a real-time behavioral research platform for the Creative Foraging Game with Flask, MongoDB and MediaPipe.
    • Built an AI-agent version in which Gemini plays the game; it was the demo for our HAI 2025 paper (co-author).
    case study, Ono Academic College
  4. Nov 2024 – Aug 2025

    Software Developer, FocusFlow (B.Sc. research project)

    Dr. Sarel Cohen's AI lab, MTA

    • Team of three with Alona Gatker and Jonatan Shaya.
    • Trained the engagement classifier on MediaPipe face landmarks and ran it in the browser with ONNX Runtime Web.
    • Built the Flask + Gemini back end for quizzes and summaries (Docker, GCP) and React features.
    • ACM SYSTOR 2025 Best Poster Award; 1st place in the research and infrastructure track of the MTA exhibition; demo paper at AIED 2025.
    case study, Dr. Sarel Cohen's AI lab, MTA
  5. 2022 – 2026

    B.Sc. in Computer Science

    The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo (MTA)

    • GPA 83.3.
  6. Dec 2020 – Apr 2022

    Vaccination Medic

    Maccabi Health Care Services

    • Called up for reserve duty to vaccinate during COVID-19, then hired by Maccabi to keep vaccinating.
    • Completed the KERNELiOS Java full-stack course (447 hours, Nov 2021 – Feb 2022): Java, SQL and web development, with a final project in React, Node.js and MongoDB.
  7. Nov 2017 – Jul 2020

    Medic and Platoon Sergeant

    Israel Defense Forces

    • Ran logistics and operational execution in an IDF clinic.
    • Built a VBA HR tool for the clinic and, as a personal project, Anamnezatron, a JavaScript tool for writing medical records.
    • Received the Colonel's Award (Oct 2019).
  8. 2015 – 2017

    Software-engineering track

    Davidson Institute, high school

    • Hackathons (2nd place in a regional high-school hackathon, 2017) and teaching at a science summer camp for middle schoolers.
    • Mentored FIRST LEGO League robotics teams (2016 – 2021).

About

I'm a full-stack developer. Since February 2026 I've worked in fintech on an internal AI assistant for employees, where I build agent capabilities and own features from the front end to the back end.

Before that I wrote research software. I was one of three developers of FocusFlow in Dr. Sarel Cohen's lab at MTA, built software for the Creative Foraging Game at Ono Academic College's Creative Action Lab, and worked on the nand2tetris Web IDE as teaching staff at Reichman University. The FocusFlow and Creative Foraging work led to three co-authored papers (ACM SYSTOR 2025, AIED 2025, HAI 2025) and the SYSTOR 2025 Best Poster Award.

I started coding in middle school and did the software-engineering track at the Davidson Institute. As an IDF medic and platoon sergeant (2017–2020) I wrote a VBA HR tool for the clinic, built Anamnezatron for drafting medical records as a personal project, and received the Colonel's Award. I have a B.Sc. in Computer Science from MTA (GPA 83.3).

I also run Forktown, an open-source pixel town for first-time contributors. If you want to talk about AI agents in real products, on-device ML or open source, email me.

Front end
React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Redux, Vite
Back end
Node.js, Express, Python, Flask, FastAPI, REST APIs
Data
PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQL, ChromaDB
AI / ML
Gemini API, OpenAI, PyTorch, ONNX Runtime, MediaPipe, Transformers.js
Ops
Docker, GCP, GitHub Actions, Vercel
Also
Java, C++, C#, VBA
Languages
Hebrew (native), English (fluent)

Timeline, oldest first

  1. 2015initsoftware-engineering track at the Davidson Institute
  2. 2017feat2nd place in a regional high-school hackathon
  3. 2017branchidf: medic and platoon sergeant
  4. 2019featAnamnezatron, a tool for writing medical notes (opens in a new tab)
  5. 2019awardColonel's Award, IDF Medical Corps
  6. 2020mergeidf -> main
  7. 2020fixCOVID-19: vaccinating people as a Maccabi medic
  8. 2021featKERNELiOS full-stack course
  9. 2022branchbsc: Computer Science at MTA
  10. 2024featFocusFlow in Dr. Sarel Cohen’s lab
  11. 2025releaseBest Poster at SYSTOR '25, 1st place in MTA's research track
  12. 2025featCreative Foraging at Ono's Creative Action Lab
  13. 2025featnand2tetris Web IDE at Reichman
  14. 2026mergebsc -> main: B.Sc. done
  15. 2026featfull-stack developer in fintech, AI agents
  16. 2026featForktown: a town built one pull request at a time (latest)

Contact

CV (PDF) LinkedIn (opens in a new tab) GitHub (opens in a new tab)

Hebrew (native), English (fluent)

Or move into Forktown with a pull request: renanbazinin.github.io/forktown (opens in a new tab)