Avishay Matayev
Co-Founder at Stealth AI Startup
Israel
Summary
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SeniorAvishay Matayev is a Co-Founder and seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building AI-first products and developer tooling from Israel. His background spans security research in Unit 8200, founding-engineer roles at multiple startups, and hands-on senior engineering positions, giving him deep technical breadth across backend systems and product delivery. He actively contributes to open-source developer tools — notably enhancing a Neovim version manager by adding sync capabilities and thoughtful configuration handling. Known for moving quickly from prototype to production, Avishay combines security-minded engineering with practical automation to keep developer workflows reliable. He’s currently building in the new era of AI, blending entrepreneurial grit with low-level systems craftsmanship.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (12)
file-handling10
neovim10
version-control10
management10
file-processing10
configuration-management10
versioning10
rust10
file-access10
fileio10
command-line10
error-handling9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
MordechaiHadad/bob
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
A version manager for neovim
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 9 commits, 2 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Avishay focused on implementing and extending functionality for the `bob` version manager for neovim. They added a "sync" command and implemented its handler, which involved reading a version from a file and using the `use` handler. The user also modified the configuration by introducing `sync_version_file_path` to store the version and refactored the `use_handler` to prevent unnecessary writes to the sync file. Their contributions centered around managing and synchronizing neovim versions.
luavimrustneovim-version-managerneovim
Avishayy/nvim
Jul 2020 - Feb 2023
Contributions:103 commits, 2 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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