Aviv Eyal is a seasoned founder and hands-on AI team leader with over a decade building consumer and web3 products from prototype to scale, currently based in San Francisco. He founded Skillful, an AI-driven interactive video learning platform for music education, and Karma Coin, a crypto app focused on appreciation and community engagement. His background includes co-founding Spacemesh and significant open-source contributions to libp2p and Spacemesh’s Go implementations, reflecting deep expertise in peer-to-peer networking and blockchain infrastructure. Earlier in his career he pioneered consumer media and mobile music apps—growing Musicsoft Arts to 25M installs—and helped build early internet video products acquired by Sony. Aviv blends product intuition, low-level protocol work, and modern web/AI stacks (Firebase, React, Go) to ship end-to-end systems, and often self-funds and iterates with launch partners during extended betas. An unusual through-line in his career is combining creative music tech and hardcore distributed-systems engineering, making him equally fluent with musicians and protocol developers.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.CS, Philosophy and Computer Science, B.CS, Philosophy and Computer Science at Tel Aviv University
Go Implementation of the Spacemesh protocol full node. 💾⏰💪
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:14 releases, 23 reviews, 644 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Aviv's first commit and subsequent modifications indicate they are working on core back-end functionality within the Spacemesh project. The initial commit introduces protocol buffer definitions for peer-to-peer communication, followed by updates that refine and expand these definitions. The commits focus on developing and integrating essential components for communication within the Spacemesh node.
Contributions summary:Aviv primarily contributed to the development of protocols within the libp2p ecosystem, focusing on the implementation of ping and echo protocols. Their work involved defining message structures using Protocol Buffers, implementing stream handlers, and integrating message signing and authentication. The user also refactored the node type and incorporated best practices for message handling and protocol interaction.
libp2p
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