Gal Zaidenstein is a Lead Software Engineer at Salesforce with nine years of experience building distributed event enrichment systems and production-grade software. He blends a strong systems and embedded background—evident from hands-on ESP32 firmware work for split keyboards, Bluetooth, power management, and rotary encoder support—with large-scale backend engineering at enterprise scale. Educated in both Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering at Tel Aviv University, he brings cross-disciplinary problem solving and practical hardware-software integration experience. A former systems and perception engineer for an autonomous racecar team, he’s comfortable with real-time constraints, computer vision, and CUDA/NVIDIA Jetson development. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical leader who moves between low-level firmware and high-level distributed architectures to deliver measurable product impact.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science at Tel Aviv University
Contributions summary:Gal appears to be focused on developing firmware for an ESP32 microcontroller-based keyboard. Their work primarily involves implementing core keyboard functionalities, including handling key presses, managing layers, and integrating a rotary encoder for media control. They added Bluetooth connectivity and a split keyboard configuration, indicating a focus on hardware integration and feature enhancements for the keyboard's firmware. The user also worked on sleep and power management features to optimize battery life.
Contributions:3 reviews, 77 commits, 10 PRs in 3 years 11 months
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Gal Zaidenstein - Lead Software Engineer at Salesforce