Summary
Yuval Shavit is a Senior Software Engineer and security researcher based in the Tel Aviv area with five years of professional experience building and hardening software for military and commercial environments. He brings deep hands-on expertise in C/C++, Python, reverse engineering and vulnerability research, cultivated through roles in the IDF and scaled into product-focused security engineering at Oligo Security and LayerX Security. Yuval has a track record of moving from low-level exploit discovery to production-safe tooling and automation, reflecting both offensive insight and pragmatic defensive engineering. Early work in automation and crawling at Check Point and Rookout highlights his aptitude for building reliable developer tooling alongside security innovations. Notably, his background blends applied R&D in constrained military contexts with shipping secure, maintainable systems in fast-moving startups.
5 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer