Itay Saadia
Research And Development Team Leader at Paragon
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolItay Saadia is a research-driven R&D team leader and entrepreneur with nine years of experience in security research, embedded and R&D software engineering, and startup leadership based in Tel Aviv. He rose to lead development teams early—managing a team at 18 and serving in Unit 8200—then transitioned into roles at Cellebrite and as CEO/co-founder of Tevet.ai, blending hands-on exploitation research with product-oriented development. Known for uncovering complex vulnerabilities across low-level and embedded systems, he moves fluidly between offensive security research and building reliable software teams. Currently leading R&D at Paragon, he combines military-grade security expertise with practical startup experience, often tackling problems that sit at the intersection of firmware, tooling, and secure development.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming/Programmer General, Computer Programming/Programmer General at Gvahim - Cyber Education Program
Hebrew, English
Github Skills (40)
statusbar10
tmux9
tpm9
shell8
tmux-theme8
dynamic8
bash8
statusline8
powerline8
assembly7
assembler7
vim6
active-directory6
operating-system5
x865
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
itaysaadia/OLAFv2-CPU
Aug 2019 - Oct 2022
Contributions:251 commits, 33 PRs, 109 pushes in 3 years 2 months
cpuoperating-systemassemblerx86operating
FMFapp/fmf-backend
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
RESTful API server
Contributions:7 PRs, 31 pushes, 5 branches in 2 months
apirestfulrestapi-serverrest-api
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