Eyal Bukchin
CTO & Co-Founder at MetalBear
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolEyal Bukchin is a pragmatic technical co-founder and CTO with a decade of engineering and leadership experience building developer-focused cloud tooling from Tel Aviv. He leads MetalBear and drives mirrord, an open tool that lets developers run local processes in real cloud conditions, contributing hands-on to the VS Code extension, Go support, and UX-improving integrations. His background spans platform and team leadership roles at BioCatch and multiple private ventures, plus early systems work in Unit 8200, giving him strong operational and security-aware instincts. Eyal combines full-stack fluency with product-first thinking, shipping data pipelines, web UIs, and core developer tooling. He studied neuroscience at Tel Aviv University, an uncommon analytical foundation that informs his pragmatic approach to system design and user problems. Colleagues describe him as an engineer-founder who still prefers shipping code over slide decks.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Neuroscience, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Neuroscience at Tel Aviv University
English, Hebrew, French
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Github Skills (20)
typescript10
vscode-extension10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
developer-tools10
debug9
debugging9
kubernetes9
kubernetes-pods9
rust8
go7
activerecord6
api6
configmap6
capistrano6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
metalbear-co/mirrord
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Connect your local process and your cloud environment, and run local code in cloud conditions.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:164 releases, 928 reviews, 139 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Eyal primarily contributed to the mirrord VS Code extension, adapting it to newer versions and adding features. Their work involved modifying the extension's code, including updating configurations, integrating version checks, and adding settings for file operations. They also worked on integrating support for Go and fixing related bugs within the extension. These changes enhanced the user experience and broadened the extension's functionality.
developer-toolssniffertrafficawscloud-environment
metalbear-co/mirrord.dev
May 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:261 reviews, 234 PRs, 235 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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