Summary
Shilo Magen is a seasoned software leader and VP R&D with over a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling consumer-facing products and engineering teams from Tel Aviv. He has founded and exited a voice-note transcription startup (Textplz), led R&D at fast-moving companies like Grain and Riverside.fm, and held progressive engineering roles at Wix and SAP, demonstrating a strong full-stack pedigree. Shilo combines entrepreneurial grit with operational leadership—moving between building prototypes ("Building...") and shipping production systems—while mentoring teams through rapid growth and acquisitions. A lifelong tinkerer who started programming at 13, he brings a practical obsession for taking ideas apart and making them tactile and scalable. Outside work he’s a former boy scout, campfire guitarist and home cook with chef tendencies, hints of creativity that show up in how he designs products and teams.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Yaffo