# Roni Gurvich

> VP of AI & ML at Cycode. AI/ML leader - building AI-centered products.

AI/ML leader with a decade-plus building and shipping machine-learning products at scale. Currently VP of AI & ML at Cycode - named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Supply Chain Security - leading the AI organization behind a named, shipping AI security suite. Previously led the Product Understanding team at Shopify (Shop AI / Shop App) and was VP R&D at Donde Search through its acquisition by Shopify. Inventor on multiple granted patents and co-author of peer-reviewed research.

## Current role
- VP of AI & ML at Cycode (Leader, 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Supply Chain Security).
- Promoted from Head of AI to VP of AI & ML at Cycode, public since July 2026; coverage published before that date uses the earlier title.

## Point of view
The hard part of AI isn't the model - it's shipping products that work in production and keep working. That has proven to be a repeatable craft across domains: biomedical, computer vision, e-commerce, and security - the throughline is turning ML into products people rely on.

## Verified highlights
- Cycode named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Supply Chain Security (https://cycode.com/blog/cycode-leader-gartner-magic-quadrant-sscs-2026/)
- Remediation Agent: AI-guided, repository-aware fixes that shorten container-violation lifecycles from days to minutes (https://cycode.com/blog/agentic-cve-remediation/)
- AI Exploitability Agent: one customer cut triage from over three days to under an hour and MTTR for critical risks by 99.4% (314 days to 3) (https://cycode.com/blog/introducing_ai_exploitability_agent/)
- Generic secret detection: 70% reduction in detection noise and +19% coverage in a single iteration (https://cycode.com/blog/the-classifier-agent-creating-a-self-improving-secret-detection-loop/)
- Maestro, the first AI security conductor: adoption grew 7.5x and saved 235 hours across 500 analyzed conversations (https://cycode.com/blog/agentic-security-in-action-insights-from-500-maestro-conversations/)
- Led Shopify Product Understanding, the ML foundation for Shop App and Shop AI (https://shop.app/ai/)
- VP R&D at Donde Search (promoted from Head of Algorithms), leading ML and engineering through its acquisition by Shopify (/posts/donde/)
- Co-author, Peptriever, Bioinformatics 2024, 40(5), btae303 (https://peptriever.app/)

## Background
- Led Shopify Product Understanding - the ML foundation for Shop App and Shop AI.
- Led R&D at Donde Search through its acquisition by Shopify.
- Inventor on multiple granted patents (see /categories/#patents on the site).
- Co-author, Peptriever (Bioinformatics 2024, 40(5), btae303).
- B.Sc. Biomedical Engineering, Tel Aviv University (2009–2013).

## Links
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roni-gurvich
- GitHub: https://github.com/RoniGurvich
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/ronig
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=eZSpEZIAAAAJ&hl=en
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-9942-6775
- DBLP: https://dblp.org/pid/425/3254

## Canonical site
https://roni.gurvich.cc/