Amir Ish-Shalom

Amir Ish-Shalom has been the Chief Information Officer at Viber since December 2012. Prior to that, they were the Video Group Manager & Software Architect at FST21 from January 2008 to December 2012.

At FST21, Amir managed the video team and was responsible for the integration of Face Recognition (FR) biometric engines, Video Analytics (VA) and License Plate Recognition (LPR) using high-res (5MP) IP video cameras in challenging lighting environments. Amir also developed fraud detection algorithms (using Image Processing) to detect live faces not accomplished by existing FR engines.

In addition, Amir created a new biometrics engine (Behavioral Biometrics) that actually learns your behavior (Learning algorithm) and adapts over time using Video Analytics. Amir also hands-on managed the central management software and decision engine. The system performs fusion between the video (FR / VA / LPR / BB) and audio (VOIP / ASR / SIV) engines and runs complex VUI scenarios. The system includes communication and integration with external hardware using TCP/IP, UDP, SNMP, HTTP, etc. The system provides high-availability and works with a distributed database (IBM DB2). Development was done mostly in Java in a Linux / Windows environment. Integration with the FR engines and image processing was done in C/C++.

Amir Ish-Shalom received a B.Sc. in Software Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Their manager is Ofir Eyal, Interim CEO. A direct report to Amir Ish-Shalom is and Evgeniy Zevelev - IT Director. Amir Ish-Shalom works with and Anna Znamenskaya - Chief Growth Officer.