Alexander Israelov
CTO Founder at Mentra
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Israelov is a product-focused software engineer and serial founder with nine years of experience building consumer and wearable interfaces from mobile apps to smart glasses. Based in San Francisco, he co-leads open-source smart glasses efforts as Head of Apps at TeamOpenSmartGlasses and is currently co-founding Mentra while working as a wearable engineer at Auki Labs. His background spans full-stack mobile and backend systems—Flutter frontends with Go backends, Angular migrations, and test automation—demonstrating an ability to modernize legacy products and deliver realtime, client-to-client features. He’s shipped practical innovations like a novel display system for open-source smart glasses and a conversation-aware Convoscope app that surfaces contextual insights to wearers. Comfortable operating at the intersection of hardware partnerships, conference representation, and hands-on engineering, he combines startup grit with engineering rigor. An under-the-radar strength is his track record of turning privacy-sensitive, realtime interaction problems into polished user experiences.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorComputer Science, Computer Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Software Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (86)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
alex1115alex/AlexIsraelov.com
Apr 2019 - Nov 2024
Contributions:50 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
aisraelov/Wearables-Telescope
Apr 2022 - Aug 2022
The "Telescope" is a pair of DIY smart glasses similar to the Google Glass in form and technology.
Contributions:60 commits, 59 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
google-glass
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