Yaakov K
Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolYaakov K is a Cloud Engineer based in Tel Aviv with 22 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, automation and cloud-native infrastructure. He has recent production experience at Lendbuzz and Red Hat, and a strong open-source footprint contributing to high-profile projects like OpenShift, StackRox and Kubernetes SIGs, focusing on CI/CD, multi-architecture builds, and build/test infrastructure maintenance. Yaakov’s work spans low-level build fixes (resolving Go linker and vendor issues) to higher-level release automation and console UI improvements, showing versatility across build systems, operators and front-end touches. He’s particularly skilled at modernizing pipelines and cross-architecture support—evident from contributions enabling arm64/ppc64le compatibility and multi-arch releases. Beyond engineering, he has academic experience teaching algorithmic number theory, reflecting a capacity for explaining complex concepts and mentoring technical teams.
22 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Ariel UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at The Open University of Israel
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Github Skills (56)
kubernetes10
javascript10
container10
gnu-make10
docker10
scripting10
cpu-architecture10
bash10
build-system10
makefile10
dockers10
terraform10
cicd10
feature-detection10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
stackrox/stackrox
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
The StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform performs a risk analysis of the container environment, delivers visibility and runtime alerts, and provides recommendations to proactively improve security by hardening the environment.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 6 commits, 10 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Yaakov's commits primarily focused on automating and improving the build and deployment processes within the StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform. This involved significant changes to build scripts, makefiles, and CI/CD configurations, specifically for supporting multi-architecture builds and releases. They also contributed to the CLI tool and the operator, ensuring the platform's compatibility and efficient deployment across diverse Kubernetes environments.
kubernetes-securitysecuritycontainersk8skubernetes
cygwinports/python36
Nov 2010 - Jul 2019
Cygwin python36 packaging
Contributions:28 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 8 years 10 months
cygwinpython
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