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Shay Dahan

JFrog Boost Co-Founder

Shay Dahan is a software engineering leader, founder, and AI developer tools specialist currently co-leading JFrog Boost, an AI platform built within JFrog to optimize context management and token efficiency for AI coding agents. A former co-founder at Assant (acquired by JFrog), Shay brings a strong background in cyber intelligence and full-stack engineering to his work building high-impact, AI-native software delivery infrastructure.

The Latest From Shay Dahan

  • Don’t Break the Agent: Lessons in Token Optimization
    | 9 min read

    This one is for the curious souls who wonder how somebody actually builds a harness optimizer — and, more to the point, how they know it works. When we launched JFrog Boost into public preview, we told the story of the bill that broke us and the 100 billion tokens we clawed back across JFrog…

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  • Why Model Routing Backfires and How to Build Agents That Don’t Burn Your Budget
    | 8 min read

    Model routing promises to cut your AI agent spend by offloading routine tasks to cheaper models like Claude Haiku while reserving frontier models like Claude Sonnet for complex reasoning. In the right configuration, routing strategies can reduce inference costs by 40–85%. But if you implement routing incorrectly in a multi-turn agent, you can end up…

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