Shay Levy
Founder & CEO at FlightOps - Drone Flight Automation Software Platform
Herzliya, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolShay Levy is a founder and CEO with 7+ years focused on building autonomous, scalable drone and C2 systems, currently leading FlightOps to enable beyond-visual-line-of-sight urban drone operations. He combines product-first industrial design training with deep hands-on engineering—especially Python—evidenced by sustained contributions to the Home Assistant core where he improved Shelly integration robustness. Prior ventures include Simplex C2 (defense command-and-control solutions) and MobiJobi (mobile workforce management), showing a pattern of turning complex operational problems into deployable cloud and edge platforms. Based in Herzliya, Israel, he pairs startup grit with enterprise sales experience working with defense primes and ministries. Notably, his background in UX and product management helps him bridge operator needs and low-level system reliability, a useful balance for safety-critical autonomy.
7 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) industrial design, Bachelor of Science (BSc) industrial design at Holon Institute of Technology
Github Skills (9)
asynchronous10
iot10
home-assistant10
internet-of-things10
pytest10
python10
home-automation10
async10
asyncio10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant/core
May 2020 - Jan 2023
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3069 reviews, 302 commits, 1636 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Shay primarily contributed to the Home Assistant core repository by addressing issues related to the Shelly integration. Their work involved modifying existing components to enhance functionalities, such as disabling Shelly update sensors by default. They also fixed test failures and updated dependencies for the Shelly integration, ensuring compatibility and stability. The user also made adjustments to support for sleeping devices and handling errors in the RPC system.
raspberry-pipythonhouseprivacy-firstasyncio
home-assistant-libs/aiowebostv
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Python library to control LG webOS based TV devices
Contributions:146 reviews, 25 commits, 219 PRs in 1 year
python-librarylgpythonweboslg-webos
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