Elad Raz
CEO at NextSilicon
Israel
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SeniorElad Raz is a seasoned entrepreneur and technical leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling low-level software, security, and networking systems. As CEO of NextSilicon and former Director of Software at Mellanox, he blends deep hands-on expertise in Intel x86_64 and ARM platforms, Windows and Linux internals, and file-system and driver development with strategic product leadership. He founded multiple startups and a professional services firm that delivered mission-critical low-level code, and he also invests in and advises early-stage Israeli tech companies. A prolific systems engineer fluent in C, C++, Java, C# and Python, he has contributed backend and Netlink/Redis integration work to prominent open-source networking projects such as SONiC’s sonic-swss. His background includes leading classified low-level projects in an elite IDF unit, giving him rare operational and security insight that informs both technical design and risk-aware decision making. Based in Israel and fluent in English and Hebrew, he pairs entrepreneurial vision with deep technical rigor.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Hebrew, English
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Github Skills (20)
c-language10
redis10
system-design10
c1110
linux-kernel10
networking10
c1710
driver10
pci10
device-driver10
sys10
database-design10
netlink10
embedded10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sonic-net/sonic-swss
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
SONiC Switch State Service (SwSS)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 29 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Elad primarily contributed to the `sonic-swss` repository by implementing and refactoring core backend functionality. They added the `ProducerTable` and `ConsumerTable` classes, which provide interfaces for interacting with a Redis database. Furthermore, the user integrated the `NetLink` and `NetDispatcher` classes to handle Netlink messages. The user also introduced and integrated the `Table` class to streamline Redis transaction access and enhanced several daemons such as `intfsyncd` and `fpmsyncd` for efficient network management.
sonicswitch
eladraz/xStl
Jan 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:24 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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