Kfir Izhak
Automotive Software Group Manager at Valens- Claim this Profile
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Hebrew Native or bilingual proficiency
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English Native or bilingual proficiency
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Spanish Elementary proficiency
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Italian Limited working proficiency
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Arabic Full professional proficiency
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Bio
Experience
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Valens Semiconductor
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Israel
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Semiconductor Manufacturing
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100 - 200 Employee
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Automotive Software Group Manager
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Nov 2019 - Present
As part of my role I am managing several software teams and responsible for:• Lead software projects from product requirements, system and software architecture definition, software design, software implementation and testing guidelines• Manage multiple local and offshore software teams responsible for Valens automotive software products• Actively handle software architecture definition and development processes• Define software group development processes and manage execution through entire project lifecycle• Manage automotive unit software group recruitment and software engineers’ self-development tasks Show less
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Software Team Leader
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Feb 2016 - Nov 2019
• Manage the automotive unit software team containing 5-6 firmware engineers through entire chip development cycle and guide team members in development tasks: requirements, design, implementation, testing and support• Full hand-on work in software development tasks of a multi-threaded embedded system• Define software architecture according to Product requirements and responsible for cross groups communication handling: Product, System, DSP, CTO, VLSI, QA and Hardware teams• Responsible for software CI/CD processes internally and to automotive customers Show less
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Real-time Embedded Firmware Engineer
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Mar 2013 - Feb 2016
• Firmware developer engineer, part of a software team working on Audio-Video unit products• Develop from scratch real-time embedded firmware in a multi-threaded environment (ThreadX, MIPS)• Lead design, implementation and testing tasks of various modules and communication protocols (HDMI, I2C, Ethernet, I2S, UART) of the project
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Siverge Networks
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Telecommunications
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineer
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Jan 2011 - Mar 2013
• Developed real-time software driver converting network circuit switching protocols to packet switching protocols • Developed Linux and VxWorks drivers • Developed real-time software driver converting network circuit switching protocols to packet switching protocols • Developed Linux and VxWorks drivers
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Techmind ltd
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Israel
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Information Technology & Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software developer
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Jul 2010 - Jan 2011
• Student job - Developed management tools for telecommunication systems • Student job - Developed management tools for telecommunication systems
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Eltel Technologistics LTD.
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Israel
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Defense and Space Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Confidential
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Jan 2008 - Jun 2010
• Military - Confidential • Military - Confidential
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Israeli Military Intelligence - Unit 8200
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Israel
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Armed Forces
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700 & Above Employee
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Served at Israeli Military Intelligence - Unit 8200
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Mar 2002 - Aug 2005
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Education
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Tel Aviv University - Coller School of Management
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) -
Ben Gurion University
Telecommunications Engineering, Software and Electrical engineering with Telecommunications focus