Valery Safran

Valery Safran has extensive work experience in hardware engineering and system architecture roles. Currently, Safran is the Director of Hardware Systems Engineering at Liberty Defense since December 2021. Prior to this, Safran worked as the Director of Hardware Engineering at Leidos (formerly L3 SDS) from November 2019 to December 2021, where they led a team of RF, hardware, mechanical, embedded engineers, and scientists for mm-wave security body scanner system development. Safran also served as a Sr.Principal System/Hardware Engineer at L3 Security & Detection Systems (now Leidos) from May 2018 to October 2019.

Before joining Leidos, Safran was a Technical Lead/Hardware Engineer at Boston Scientific from July 2015 to May 2018. They led the feasibility study and development of class III medical devices and were responsible for hardware development, packaging, FPGA, firmware, and magnetic tracking tests. Safran also played a key role in developing a class II system with an emphasis on digital design and compliance testing.

Prior to Boston Scientific, Safran worked at Vislink - MRC Broadcast from December 2007 to July 2015, where they served as a Technical Project Lead and Principal System/Hardware Architect. They were responsible for the development of long-haul broadcasting microwave systems and hybrid radio systems.

Safran has also gained experience at Maxtech Networks as a Sr. Digital/Hardware Engineer from August 2005 to October 2007. They were part of the core team that developed a novel mesh ad hoc wireless network and system for the first responders market. Safran's responsibilities included wireless base-band design and board design based on FPGA and NIOSII soft.

Earlier in their career, Safran worked at RCH Systems as a Hardware/Systems Group Manager from July 2003 to August 2005. They led a team, managed system and hardware design processes, and executed the design of an ultrasound imaging system. Safran also worked as a Team Lead and Sr. ASIC/FPGA Engineer at ADC Telecommunications from April 2001 to January 2003, where they developed SoC designs based on the NEC SoCLite gate array platform.

Safran started their career as a Hardware Engineer at Azimuth Technologies in Israel from February 1999 to April 2001. They were involved in the design and debugging of boards for GPS-based military navigation systems and custom video systems. Safran also worked at ELBIT System in Israel as a Hardware Engineer from January 1995 to January 1999, where they performed mixed digital and analog board design and FPGA development for military applications.

Overall, Valery Safran has a diverse and comprehensive work experience in hardware engineering, system architecture, and leadership roles across various industries.

Valery Safran completed their Practical Engineer degree in electronics/computers from ORT Bialik College from 1991 to 1994. Valery later pursued a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from INTERNATIONAL SOLOMON UNIVERSITY, which they completed from 2000 to 2002.