# Vitaly Gordon

> Vitaly Gordon is the co-founder and CEO of Faros AI, an AI-native engineering intelligence platform he started in 2019 with former Salesforce colleagues. Before Faros, he founded Salesforce Einstein and led it as VP of Engineering and Data Science, scaling it from zero to a platform serving billions of predictions per day. Earlier in his career he was a data science lead at LinkedIn and a data science manager at LivePerson. He now builds tooling that helps engineering organizations measure and improve productivity, and navigate the shift to AI-augmented software development.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at Faros AI
- **Organizations:** Faros AI, Salesforce, LinkedIn, LivePerson
- **Nationality:** Israeli
- **Education:** B.Sc, Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, MBA, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
- **Known for:** Founded Salesforce Einstein and grew it from zero to a leading enterprise AI platform serving billions of predictions per day, Co-founded Faros AI, an AI-native engineering intelligence platform, in 2019, Raised a $20M Series A for Faros AI led by David Hornik of Lobby Capital, with SignalFire, Operator Collective, and Salesforce Ventures

## Career timeline

- **2019** — Co-founded Faros AI and became CEO
- **2019** — Left Salesforce (April 26, 2019) as head of engineering and data science for the Einstein Platform
- **2016-2019** — VP of Engineering / Data Science at Salesforce; founded and scaled Salesforce Einstein
- **earlier** — Data science lead at LinkedIn
- **earlier** — Senior Manager for Data Science at LivePerson
- **2023** — Faros AI raised $20M Series A led by David Hornik of Lobby Capital
- **2024** — Announced partnerships with Globant and Microsoft around AI-augmented engineering

## Achievements

- Founded Salesforce Einstein and grew it from zero to a leading enterprise AI platform serving billions of predictions per day
- Co-founded Faros AI, an AI-native engineering intelligence platform, in 2019
- Raised a $20M Series A for Faros AI led by David Hornik of Lobby Capital, with SignalFire, Operator Collective, and Salesforce Ventures
- Helped build the auto-ML framework embedded in Salesforce's multi-tenant platform that automatically builds and personalizes AI models per tenant
- Established partnerships between Faros AI and Globant and Microsoft to support AI-driven software engineering

## Latest updates

- **2024-12** — Faros AI announced a partnership with Globant to support agentic AI-based projects.
- **2024-11** — Published guidance on scaling engineering productivity at each growth stage via SignalFire.
- **2023-06** — Faros AI closed a $20M Series A led by David Hornik of Lobby Capital.

## Links

- Website: https://faros.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vitalygordon/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/vitalygordon
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzGK-NFOg8M

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Last updated: 2026-07-24