Barak is a technologist, historian, and serious Jew. He works on cloud infrastructure for AI during the day, maintains a blog on 'the Age of AI' at taoofai.substack.com, and maintains a strong connection to Israel and Jewish life. Barak is connected to Reform, Conservative, Orthodox; American and Israeli Jewish communities, and is fluent in Hebrew. Barak holds an MBA from Rutgers and an MEd and BA from The George Washington University.