Summary
Michal Shalev is a software developer based in Tel Aviv with five years of hands-on experience in embedded Linux and low-level systems engineering. He has progressed from visual intelligence work in the Israeli Air Force to building device drivers, firmware verification flows, and voltage control loops for ASIC/FPGA platforms at Chain Reaction, and recently joined NVIDIA. Proficient in C, C++ and Python, he focuses on hardware-adjacent software including I2C drivers and platform validation on Protium and Palladium. Michal blends disciplined systems thinking from military investigation with practical tooling for silicon bring-up and reliability. Outside engineering he’s a former Israeli judo national champion and a barista, hinting at a competitive, detail-oriented approach and strong attention to craft. He holds a Computer Science degree from the Open University of Israel and brings a pragmatic, hardware-aware perspective to complex software problems.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at The Open University of Israel