Lior Shalev
About me
Software architect and hands-on systems engineer building products where failure is expensive: endpoint security, secure browsers, counter-drone defense, and real-time computer vision. Most recently led a hardware-enforced endpoint-security system from concept to working prototype and provisional patent.
Experience from the kernel up: Linux drivers, embedded Linux, Chromium internals, and cryptographic protocols, with shipped products on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android. Equally effective as the architect of a system and as the engineer writing its code.
Highlights
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Security startup, founding team (2025). Principal architect. Designed and built a system where even a fully compromised computer cannot read the user’s screen or keyboard: display and input run on separate trusted hardware, and the computer in between carries only encrypted data. Delivered a working prototype and a provisional patent on the key-exchange protocol.
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Talon Cyber Security (2023–2024). Built data-loss-prevention and security-hardening features inside Talon’s Chromium-based enterprise browser. Acquired by Palo Alto Networks for $625M.
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D-Fend Solutions (2019–2022). Software architect and team lead for the Wi-Fi counter-drone system, deployed by defense and critical-infrastructure customers worldwide. Acquired by Motorola Solutions for $1.5B.
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TechSee (2018–2019). Architected and built augmented-reality clients for web, Android, and iOS, running real-time object tracking on live video.
Technical domains
- Security engineering: Endpoint security, Chromium/browser internals, DLP, RF/Wi-Fi cyber systems, applied cryptography and PKI, and security architecture for high-assurance products.
- Systems & low-level engineering: Linux kernel/BSP, Xilinx/FPGA platforms, driver development, embedded Linux, and performance-critical C/C++/Rust.
- Computer vision, AR, and real-time media: OpenCV, TensorFlow, ARKit, WebRTC, and real-time object tracking on live video.
- Cross-platform product delivery: Production software across Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android; TypeScript/React, Python, Go, and AWS. Strong test, release, and DevOps ownership.
Read more
Personal website: liorshalev.com
GitHub page: github.com/liorshalev01
LinkedIn page: linkedin.com/in/liorshalev