Summary
Ilan Klaper is a Senior Software Engineer and team lead with 8 years of experience building full-stack and safety-critical autonomous systems, currently leading a team of five at Elbit Systems in Israel. He specializes in multi-threaded C++ and Python development for real-time, defense-grade applications using ROS1/ROS2, DDS, GStreamer and Docker, and repeatedly takes projects from an empty repo to production under strict reliability constraints. His background includes web and desktop full-stack work (React, TypeScript, Node.js, Electron) which gives him cross-domain agility when integrating UI, services, and embedded components. Ilan has architected munition guidance and live-video streaming systems, implemented RTSP/DeepStream pipelines, and owns CI/CD and rigorous testing practices for safety-critical delivery. He balances hands-on coding, code reviews and mentoring with driving technical decisions and standards across his team. A pragmatic problem-solver, he combines concurrency expertise and a safety-first mindset to deliver deterministic behavior in high-stakes systems.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at Ruppin Academic Center
Hebrew, English