Dan Raviv
Co-Founder at Sound Radix
Israel
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Top SchoolDan Raviv is a software R&D leader and Co-Founder with 12+ years of experience building low-level, high-impact products and shipping complete, production-ready projects. He specializes in digging into OS and third-party internals to diagnose hard bugs and design pragmatic, well-engineered solutions, blending research-driven thinking with product-focused implementation. As founder of Sound Radix he created algorithmic tools for the music industry, combining deep technical skill with a passion for music theory. His background includes leading R&D for WatchDox clients across iOS, Acrobat and Office, and early-career roles in elite 8200 units where he led applied-math teams and protocol analysis. An active open-source contributor, he has improved maintainability and fixed subtle memory and portability issues in core cryptocurrency projects such as Bitcoin Core and PIVX. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful, systems-level problem solving that routinely modernizes legacy C++ codebases.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Computer Sciences, B.A., Computer Sciences at Israel Jobs
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (39)
c-language10
memory-management10
bitcoin10
bitcoins10
cryptocurrency10
maintainability10
blockchain10
cryptography10
cplus10
litecoin10
refactoring10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
bitcoin/bitcoin
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 35 PRs, 140 comments in 22 days
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on improving the codebase's maintainability, performance, and adherence to best practices. They addressed code simplification, including bswap_16 implementation, and improved comments for preprocessor conditions. Furthermore, the user corrected memory leaks in macOS GUI components and modernized coding practices by refactoring disallowed copy constructors/assignment operators. Their contributions also involved fixing include paths and fixing comments.
cryptographyp2pc-plus-pluscryptocurrencybitcoin-core
PIVX-Project/PIVX
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
Protected Instant Verified Transactions - Core wallet.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 21 days
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on code refactoring and bug fixes within the PIVX project. Their contributions include removing redundant copy constructors, fixing header guards, addressing memory leaks in the macOS GUI utilities, and modernizing disallowed copy constructors/assignment operators. Furthermore, they refactored code to optimize the `CCoinsViewCache::BatchWrite()` function and fixed code constness in `CBlockIndex::GetAncestor()` overloads. The user's work demonstrates a strong understanding of C++ and its application within the PIVX codebase.
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