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Pini Shvartsman
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Pini Shvartsman
I lead DevOps and Innovation for a global SaaS platform, guiding 100+ engineers through the AI era. I put AI agents on the org chart with real roles, KPIs, and accountability. Before that: employee #5, built the CI/CD, the infrastructure, the offshore team, all of it. I write the production-grounded takes most AI coverage is too polite to publish.
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Work with me
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I run DevOps and Innovation for a global SaaS platform. 100+ engineers. AI agents on the actual org chart, with real roles and KPIs. I write about all of it at pinishv.com.

Sometimes people want more than an article. That’s what this page is for.

I take on a small number of engagements outside my day job. The goal is always the same: help teams become AI-first in a way that actually moves productivity. Not “we rolled out Copilot” AI-first. Measurable shifts in how the team plans, builds, reviews, and ships. That’s the outcome leaders actually care about, and it’s the only one I work on. Three ways to work together.

1. Engineering Leadership Advisory (1:1)
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For VPs, Heads of Engineering, and CTOs trying to figure out AI adoption without burning down the org in the process.

Format: 1-on-1 sessions, one-off or ongoing. Usually 60 to 90 minutes, structured around a specific problem you’re working through.

Typical topics I get asked about:

  • Designing review gates and governance that survive AI speed
  • Growing senior engineers when agents write the first 80%
  • Putting AI agents on the actual org chart with KPIs
  • Balancing velocity with quality in AI-heavy teams
  • Org-level learning paths, not tool training

What you get: someone who’s actually done this at scale, not a slide deck. I’ll ask hard questions, push back on assumptions, and point out the mistakes I’ve already made so you don’t have to make them.

2. Team Engagements
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For engineering organizations actively trying to get AI into real workflows. Deeper, longer engagements.

Format: multi-week engagement. Can be remote, on-site, or hybrid.

What it looks like:

  • Audit of current AI adoption, review practices, and governance gaps
  • Facilitated workshops with engineering leadership on target state
  • Designing review standards, learning paths, and metrics that actually measure understanding
  • Running an internal AI hackathon (I’ve built and run one that changed how 50+ engineers think about their craft)
  • Follow-up review of what shipped, what stuck, and what needs another pass

This is not a training program. I’m not going to teach your engineers how to prompt. I’m going to help you build the org-level practices that turn AI from a toy into production infrastructure.

3. Startup Build Advisory (Founders)
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For founders building from zero who want to ship with a team of 2 or 3 humans and a fleet of AI agents doing the work that used to require the other 7.

Format: typically a 4 to 8 week advisory engagement to help you design the development stack, workflow, and agent orchestration before you lock in the wrong architecture. Can continue as ongoing advisory after.

What we work on together:

  • An AI-first development stack, designed before you hire anyone you don’t need
  • Agent roles mapped to your actual early-stage workload: code, review, QA, customer ops, docs
  • The review gates and governance that let a 2-person team ship like a 10-person one, without becoming a 10-person mess three months later
  • Honest calls on what AI can and can’t do at your stage, from someone running this at 100+ engineers in production today

This is advisory, not hands-on IC work. I’ll help you architect the build, make the key calls, and steer you around the expensive mistakes. The building itself is still yours. If you’re serious about shipping with minimal headcount and an army of agents, this is the fastest path I know to get there.

Who this is for
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Engineering leaders at growing SaaS companies and B2B platforms. Founders building AI-first from zero. Anyone running 20+ engineers through the AI transition, or anyone trying to ship like a 20-engineer team with three people and an agent fleet. Serious operators, real work.

I work with a small number of clients because the work deserves attention, and because I have a day job I’m not giving up.

Speaking and workshops
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Separate from the three engagements above, I also take speaking invitations, workshops, internal AMAs, and executive briefings. Companies sometimes bring in a security consultant to walk their teams through what’s really happening in the threat landscape. I do the same for AI in engineering.

If you want someone to come in and give your team or leadership an unvarnished look at what AI actually does (and where it’s quietly breaking) in production engineering orgs, that’s a conversation I’m open to. Remote or in-person.

Get in touch
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The fastest way to reach me is on LinkedIn. Tell me briefly what you’re working on, what you’ve tried, and what’s not working. If we’re a fit, we’ll find time.