Summary
Gal Zaidman is a Senior Cloud Acceleration Architect with 8 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, specializing in Kubernetes/OpenShift, virtualization, and automation. He has driven OpenShift-on-RHV integration at Red Hat and now accelerates cloud workloads at NVIDIA, combining deep systems debugging with CI/CD and provider integrations. Hands-on in Golang, Python, and Bash, he designs reliable distributed systems, implements CI pipelines, and contributes maintainable OSS components that become part of enterprise distributions. Gal’s background includes creating the virtio-win installer adopted by Fedora/RHEL and mentoring engineers from intern to senior, reflecting both technical depth and team leadership. Comfortable across Linux, Windows internals, Ansible, and Terraform, he blends low-level systems knowledge with cloud-native patterns. Based in Israel, he’s motivated by continual learning and improving open-source tooling one patch at a time.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering - Specialization in Information Systems and software development, 90, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering - Specialization in Information Systems and software development, 90 at Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineering
English, Hebrew