Yaara Verner
Software Engineer at MIND
Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolYaara Verner is a software engineer with four years of hands-on experience building secure, cloud-aware back-end systems and DevOps tooling, currently based in Tel Aviv. Her career includes multiple roles at Palo Alto Networks and a senior position at Sweet Security, grounded in an early, formative stint in Unit 8200 where she led training courses and hands-on development. She contributes to notable open-source security tooling like Checkov, improving CloudFormation accuracy and test coverage, reflecting a strong focus on infrastructure-as-code correctness. Yaara combines operational rigor from production security teams with a developer’s attention to testing and graph-based analysis, and she’s finishing a long military service while completing a CS degree and transitioning to civilian roles.
5 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at The Open University of Israel
Github Skills (10)
aws-cloudformation10
python10
terraform9
devops9
terraformer9
infrastructure-as-code8
yaml8
aws7
testing7
static-analysis7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bridgecrewio/checkov
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:243 reviews, 296 commits, 193 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Yaara primarily contributed to improving the accuracy of CloudFormation definitions, fixing issues related to start and end line numbers in CFN configurations and adding tests to validate these changes. They also moved a comment mark to a separate file, indicating familiarity with the project's structure and configuration. Further, the user removed an environment variable and added test to ensure that CFN graph checks are running and enhanced the integration tests to check if YAML checks run.
checkovcontainer-imageinfrastructure-as-codevulnerabilitiesterraform
YaaraVerner/terragoat
Oct 2021 - Dec 2022
TerraGoat is Bridgecrew's "Vulnerable by Design" Terraform repository. TerraGoat is a learning and training project that demonstrates how common configuration errors can find their way into production cloud environments.
Contributions:29 PRs, 19 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 2 months
vulnerablebridgecrewinfrastructuretrainingcloud-environments
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