5th Year Veterinary Student · Israel

Itai Axelrod

Emergency · Small Animal · Clinical Automation

Clinical emergency experience meets software automation - bringing a technical edge to modern veterinary practice.

Not your average vet student

I'm a 5th-year veterinary student at the University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest (UniVet), studying in English. I'm Israeli, based in Budapest, finishing a 5-year program spanning basic sciences through full clinical rotations - small animals, equine, farm animals, surgery, and emergency. Outside the clinic I build automation scripts, run my own home network, and use AI tools daily. I like building systems - whether that's a diagnostic workup for a complex case or a workflow that saves me three hours of repetitive work. I'm always looking for what's inefficient and thinking about how to fix it - maybe it's an Israeli thing, but I'd rather build a solution than just live with the problem.

5
Years of Study
30
Day ICU Externship
7
Clinical Disciplines

Time in the clinic

Mobile Clinic Semesters 7–9 · UniVet

Mobile Clinic Rotation

Mandatory field rotation as part of the UniVet Budapest curriculum (semesters 7–9). Provided veterinary care to small animals outside the university clinic - house calls, farm visits, and community cases. Developed flexibility, independent clinical decision-making, and client communication in uncontrolled field environments.

Field Medicine Small Animals UniVet Curriculum
Internal Medicine Year 3–4

Internal Medicine & Diagnostics

Clinical rotations covering systematic diagnostic approaches, case workup, laboratory interpretation, and management of chronic and acute systemic disease.

Diagnostics Hematology Endocrinology

A different kind of vet

AI-Assisted Workflows

Leveraging frontier AI tools (Gemini, Claude, NotebookLM) for knowledge management, research synthesis, and clinical study note generation. Built a pipeline that organizes my own recorded lectures and course materials by subject and feeds them into NotebookLM as structured sources, and helping classmates set up the same system so their notebooks stay focused on university content instead of drifting off-topic.

Gemini Claude NotebookLM

Scripting & Automation

Python scripts and shell automation for workflow optimization - data processing, file management, and repetitive task elimination.

Python Bash Automation

Local Network Admin

Self-built and personally managed home network - routing, VLANs, DNS, and infrastructure. Hands-on technical ownership from the ground up.

Networking DNS Infrastructure

Native App Development

Building native macOS/iOS apps in Swift and SwiftUI outside of coursework - a home-lab dashboard for managing virtual machines, remote devices, and encrypted cloud sync; a media toolkit wrapping ffmpeg for stream diagnostics and format conversion; and a native player built as a faster alternative to a slower Electron app.

Swift SwiftUI Xcode

Let's talk

Open to externships, research, and conversations

Based in Budapest, Hungary. Reach out on LinkedIn.

Curriculum Vitae

Full academic and clinical background, skills, and achievements.

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