Bald & Smart

Kfir Zini

Electronics engineer and hands-on product builder leading development from concept and architecture through prototyping, validation, integration, and pilot readiness.

What he brings

Highlights

Product Execution

End-to-end architecture, prototyping, testing, integration, and pilot readiness for real-world products.

Embedded Hardware

Sensing, board bring-up, reliability testing, system stabilization, and hardware integration.

Applied ML

LSTM-based classification and rep counting, computer vision inputs, data preparation, and iteration.

Automation

Python automation for analytics, reporting, internal tools, and practical engineering workflows.

The timeline

Professional Experience

May 2024 - Present

Traxout

Co-Founder / Product & Engineering

Building an MVP for automatic strength-training tracking in gyms using sensing and AI.
Developed weight and load-cell sensing concepts and validated feasibility on-site.
Built ML workflows for exercise classification and rep counting with LSTM-based models, including data prep and iteration.
Developed a vision-based POC leveraging keypoint extraction as model input.

Jan 2023 - Apr 2024

Nina

Hardware Lead - IoT Product

Led hardware ownership for an IoT product and drove integration readiness.
Managed IP transfer from outsourced development and led failure analysis and stabilization.
Built Python automation for business insights and reporting.

Mar 2021 - Dec 2022

BioLED

System Development Lead - HW & Integration

Led full-system development and technology stack decisions.
Executed stress and thermal validation.
Drove integration with backend services and smartphone application.
Worked with external experts on certification and IP.
Filed and approved a patent related to communication for horticulture and grow lighting systems.

Earlier builds

Earlier Experience

2020 - 2021

OrCam

Hardware Engineer

Worked on schematics, bring-up, and debugging of dense boards.

2019 - 2020

LTTS

FPGA / Board Engineer

Worked with RTL, VHDL, Verilog, Vivado, ModelSim, Zynq bring-up, DDR3, and Ethernet designs.

2017 - 2019

Mosktech

Embedded / Board Designer

Delivered concept-to-production electronics, PCB design in Altium, and firmware in C/C++.

Training

Education

B.Sc. Electronics Engineering | Lev Academic Center | 2013 - 2017

Final Project at Sigmabit: FPGA-accelerated WPA2 brute-force implementation.

Still learning

AI / Continuous Learning

Udemy: A Deep Understanding of Deep Learning.
Hands-on learning through Kaggle projects and applied ML work in Traxout.

Want the technical version?

Talk to Kfir

Good for electronics, embedded systems, sensing, ML experiments, and moving physical products from lab bench chaos into something that actually works.

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