Professional

Since my graduation from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) with a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering in 2003, I work as an Embedded Systems Engineer, developing specs, hardware and software for embedded applications. My speciality is designing and implementing FPGAs in VHDL, developing low-level control code and drivers for microcontrollers in C, and writing desktop applications for controlling and communicating with embedded systems, mostly in Python, Perl and C++.

From 2000 to early 2006 I held a part-time programmer position at IBM’s Haifa Research Lab, Formal Verification department, developing applications in C and C++.

Programming is one of my favorite pastimes, and I enjoy learning new technologies and expanding my horizons.

Personal

I was born on November 24th, 1980 in the former Soviet Union republic Moldova (now an independent state). In 1990 my family immigrated to Israel, and I’ve been living here ever since. I currently reside in Haifa, with my wife Anna and our dog Shoko. We have a photo album online.

In my free time, I like to write code for my personal pet-projects, write articles about programming, read, learn foreign languages, swim, travel and go for long walks.

I’m fluent in Hebrew, Russian and English, and speak passable Spanish (though my reading comprehension is much better – I can read books and the internet almost freely). I’m also trying to learn Arabic (so far the spoken Levantine dialect).

Online presence

Not being a big fan of social networks, I’m not on Facebook, Twitter or Linkedin. There are enough ways to waste time and procrastinate even without those! I prefer to express myself through this website, and am always open to email correspondence.

The only two online communities I actively participate in are Proggit and Stack Overflow:

Contact

My email address is eliben@gmail.com