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    "name": "Roy Achiron",
    "label": "Product Leader, Founder, Strategic Operator",
    "email": "roy@achiron.fyi",
    "phone": "0525362223",
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    "summary": "A product-minded technologist and co-founder who focuses on the pre-dev phase. I specialize in translating user needs into validated specs, prototyping to de-risk ideas early, and building the operational leverage that helps teams ship better products, faster.",
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      "name": "AI-Driven Product Development (2022–present)",
      "position": "AI-Driven Product Development (2022–present)",
      "summary": "Approached AI infrastructure as a strategic lever for product discovery. By deploying and managing self-hosted LLMs, I helped build internal pipelines that compress the iteration cycle—from automated documentation to testable frontend generation. Every build-vs-buy and architecture decision is made with the product's end-goal in mind: moving from idea to validated prototype faster and more securely.",
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      "name": "Operational Engineering & Automation (2022–Present)",
      "position": "Operational Engineering & Automation (2022–Present)",
      "summary": "Building internal leverage through code. By automating operational workflows in Node.js and orchestrating CI/CD pipelines, I help remove bottlenecks that slow teams down. I use code as a practical tool to solve operational friction, freeing up the engineering team to focus on core product development rather than manual, repetitive tasks.",
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    {
      "name": "Freelance Photographer & Media Editor (2017–present)",
      "position": "Freelance Photographer & Media Editor (2017–present)",
      "summary": "High-end visual storytelling and technical asset management. Beyond photography, managing complex post-production pipelines ensuring media deliverables meet strict technical specifications for commercial and editorial clients.",
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    {
      "name": "Product & QA Lead at Mapme (2015–2016)",
      "position": "Product & QA Lead at Mapme (2015–2016)",
      "summary": "Joined as QA Lead and naturally evolved into a product role during the critical 0.5 beta to 2.0 transition. I owned UX characterization, validated feature specs against user behavior, and fed Tier 3 support insights directly back into the roadmap. By identifying complex edge cases early, I served as a practical bridge between what users needed and what the engineering team was building.",
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    },
    {
      "name": "Support Engineer at Optier (2012)",
      "position": "Support Engineer at Optier (2012)",
      "summary": "Tier 3 technical support for enterprise APM systems. Specialized in UNIX environments, SQL databases, and virtualized infrastructure. Deep-dive technical triage feeding structural performance data back to development for system hardening.",
      "highlights": []
    },
    {
      "name": "Intelligence Analyst — IDF Intelligence Corps (2008–2011)",
      "position": "Intelligence Analyst — IDF Intelligence Corps (2008–2011)",
      "summary": "Pioneering OSINT research and cross-platform data analysis. Responsible for characterising complex information flows and delivering high-stakes briefings. Developed the 'triage-first' analytical mindset applied to software today.",
      "highlights": []
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        "LLM Infrastructure",
        "UX Characterization",
        "Rapid Prototyping",
        "Build-vs-Buy Evaluation",
        "Roadmap Planning"
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