Eithan Shavit
President And CPO at Tixel (Formerly Novoxel)
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolEithan Shavit is a seasoned engineering leader and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building teams and products across startups and FAAMG companies, currently serving as President and CPO of Tixel in San Francisco. He has held engineering leadership roles at YouTube, ChromeOS, and Facebook—spanning mobile, portal hardware, and data products—and founded AI and social startups where he combined product vision with hands-on execution. Known for shipping large-scale projects and driving technological innovation, he pairs strategic product leadership with deep engineering instincts rooted in an electrical engineering background from Tel Aviv University. An active contributor to embedded open-source firmware (notably enhancements to the popular qmk keyboard firmware), he brings practical hardware and IoT experience alongside cloud and data systems expertise. Colleagues describe him as a builder who turns ambiguous problems into concrete product outcomes while mentoring high-impact teams.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc in Electrical Engineering, BSc in Electrical Engineering at Tel Aviv University
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (22)
keyboard-input10
c-language10
qmk-firmware10
firmware10
qmk10
c1110
keyboard10
c1710
keyboard-layout10
sys10
embedded10
cprogramming-language10
atmel9
hardware9
c-programming9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
qmk/qmk_firmware
Jan 2021 - May 2021
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 8 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Eithan primarily contributed to the development of keyboard firmware, specifically for the Afternoon Labs Breeze and Gust macro board. Their work included adding new keyboard layouts, such as the oceanbreeze, and creating keymaps. They also made adjustments to existing keymaps and configurations, including modifications to the keymap layer order, and adjustments to rules.mk and config.h files related to the hardware configuration of the keyboards.
rp2040firmwareavratmelkeyboard-support
eithanshavit/eithanshavit.github.io
Apr 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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