Hagai Barel is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 10+ years of experience building and operating cloud-native platforms, now focusing on Kubernetes, IaC (Terraform, Pulumi) and CI/CD to deliver reliable, scalable systems. He has led and mentored cross-functional DevOps/SRE teams in both startup and enterprise contexts, setting architectural direction while remaining deeply hands-on in implementation and incident response. Comfortable across AWS, GCP and Azure, Hagai emphasizes observability, failure-driven design and developer velocity—turning infrastructure from a bottleneck into an enabler. His background spans founding cloud teams from scratch to steering platform engineering at high-growth companies, and he pairs coding skills in Go and Python with pragmatic leadership. Based in the Netherlands and available immediately for EU work, he combines technical depth with a proven track record of improving reliability, security and delivery speed.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, General, Bachelor's Degree, Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, General at University of Haifa
A simple app to monitor spark driver pods running on kubernetes and restart them in case of failure
Contributions:3 releases, 2 reviews, 20 commits in 1 year 7 months
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