Tom Ben Gal

I work as a software engineer / AI researcher at AI21 Labs.

I contributed to the pretraining of Jamba 1.5. Before that, I led the development of the Wordtune chrome extension.

Previously, I worked at a gaming startup and at an enterprise software company.

Writing

August 9, 2025

The 500-line notebook problem: A framework for data pipelines that don't break at scale