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 hardware and software for military 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 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, read, learn Spanish, swim, travel and go for long walks. I posted reviews of all the books I’ve read since 2003 on this website.

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).

Contact

My email address is eliben@gmail.com