Alexander 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
Computer Science Computer Software Engineering, Computer Science Computer Software Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
Smart glasses OS, with dozens of built-in apps. Users get AI assistant, notifications, translation, screen mirror, captions, and more. Devs get to write 1 app that runs on any pair of smart glases.
Contributions:3 releases, 3 reviews, 173 PRs in 1 year 7 months
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Alexander Israelov - Co-Founder at TeamOpenSmartGlasses