Ivan Zaitsev is a Staff Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building firmware and system software for consumer and automotive products. He brings deep expertise in embedded C, Embedded Linux, and low-level debugging, having advanced from firmware roles at X-Media and Tesla to system software leadership at Google Pixel. Ivan combines a strong academic background in electrical engineering and power transmission with practical skills delivering production-ready embedded systems at scale. He has moved between cloud platform and device-focused teams, giving him a rare cross-domain perspective on connectivity, reliability, and system integration. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture choices that balance hardware constraints with software maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Gomel State Technical University
Master's degree Power transmission and distribution of information, Master's degree Power transmission and distribution of information at Belarusian State University of Transport
Contributions:30 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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Ivan Zaitsev - Staff Software Engineer Pixel System SW at Google