Prior to founding Laminar, Amit served in Unit 8200, an Israeli Intelligence Corps unit of the Israel Defense Forces, focused on collecting signal intelligence and code decryption. While in the military, Shaked earned a master’s degree in AI and deep learning. Following Unit 8200, Amit held multiple positions leading teams doing deep learning and AI for unicorn Magic Leap, delivering augmented reality for the enterprise. Amit holds a Masters of Computer Science from Tel Aviv University.