Lior Shalev

Personal: liorshalev.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/liorshalev

About me

Software engineer with 20+ years building systems: endpoint security, secure browsers, counter-drone defense, and real-time computer vision. Effective from the kernel up, from Linux drivers and embedded Linux to Chromium internals and applied cryptography, with shipped products across Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android. I write the code and can own the architecture. I am looking for a senior individual-contributor or hands-on technical-lead role.

Skills

• Security: Endpoint security, Chromium internals, DLP, RF and Wi-Fi cyber systems, applied cryptography.
• Systems & low-level: Linux kernel and BSP work, Xilinx and FPGA platforms, embedded Linux, performance-critical systems.
• Computer vision: OpenCV, OpenGL, TensorFlow, ARKit, WebRTC, real-time video pipelines.
• Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux, browsers, iOS, Android.
• Languages: C++20, Rust, Go, Python, TypeScript.

Experience

Jan 2026 – Present: Freelance Software Engineer

Production reliability, low-level systems, and cross-platform performance.

• Refactored Windows and macOS EDR integrations for performance and stability, resulting in a near-zero rate of production failures.
• Developed kernel DMA drivers for FPGA-to-user-space data paths on Xilinx SoC platforms.

Jan 2025 – Dec 2025: Stealth startup (founding team)

Founding Software Developer. Conceived and led a hardware-enforced endpoint security system from concept to working prototype. The architecture isolates display and input in dedicated trusted hardware, so a compromised host or browser can relay only opaque ciphertext and never access plaintext or keys, defeating keylogging, screen scraping, and man-in-the-browser attacks by design rather than by policy.

• Implemented the trusted display node prototype that captures an untrusted host’s HDMI output, decrypts locally, and composites the plaintext as a trusted overlay, so the host never holds the key or plaintext.
• Implemented the content encryption gateway.
• Authored a whitepaper on a three-party authenticated key-exchange protocol. The protocol enables physically isolated, unidirectional input and output devices to converge on a single session key, addressing the state-synchronization problem that arises when the two devices cannot communicate directly.

We decided to close the venture after concluding that the commercial opportunity was too narrow.

Rust, TypeScript, Node.js, React, V4L2, OpenCV, OpenGL, AES, PKI.

Jan 2023 – Apr 2024: Talon (acquired by Palo Alto Networks)

Senior Software Developer — Talon Enterprise Browser, a Chromium-based secure browser.

• Implemented enterprise DLP policies in a Chromium-based browser, enforcing runtime security controls.
• Researched and developed a Chromium security hardening feature.
• Investigated and resolved Chromium performance issues.

C++20, TypeScript, Python, Chromium internals.

Dec 2019 – Dec 2022: D-Fend Solutions (acquired by Motorola Solutions)

Senior Software Developer — Counter-drone RF and Wi-Fi cybersecurity systems, deployed globally by defense and critical-infrastructure customers.

• Technical lead for the Wi-Fi counter-drone cybersecurity system.
• Developed the embedded Linux BSP for Xilinx platforms.
• Technical lead for the RF system testing project, covering architecture, automation, and regression coverage.
• Led engineering-wide initiatives to improve code quality, DevOps practices, and release management.

Python, C, C++, Linux.

Jan 2018 – Dec 2019: TechSee

Senior Software Developer — Augmented reality customer support platform combining AI computer vision with WebRTC.

• Developed browser-based AR image processing and AI inference integrated with WebRTC.
• Developed AR Android and iOS apps with real-time object-tracking AI on live video.

C++, Swift, Java, Python, TypeScript, React, iOS, Android.

Earlier

• 2013–2015 — HealthWatch, Software Development Lead. 15-lead ECG remote monitoring and medical diagnostic product. Led hardware/firmware integration, mobile apps, and cloud backend. C, C++, iOS, Android, AWS.
• 2008–2012 — Independent Consultant (US), E-commerce and Online Trading. Built large-scale trading and e-commerce services handling high concurrent request volumes. C#, .NET, AWS.
• 2004–2008 — Celtro, Cellular Backhaul Systems. Infrastructure software, IP networking for cellular data transport, real-time DB mirroring. Linux kernel, C, C++.
• 2002–2004 — Terayon, VoIP Modem / CMTS. IP security and routing protocols (RSA, SSL, Kerberos). Linux kernel, C, C++.
• 2000–2002 — Vigilant Technology, Video Surveillance. MPEG4 storage on RAID with real-time face-recognition pipeline. C, C++, Win32.