Summary
Adir Atias is a Principal Platform Engineer at Microsoft with eight years of focused experience building and operating large-scale Kubernetes platforms that run across thousands of clusters and support hundreds of thousands of mission-critical services. He specializes in GitOps-driven platform architectures, autoscaling and workload optimization (Karpenter, KEDA, VPA), and infrastructure-as-code at enterprise scale, driving reliability, security, and cost efficiency. A twice-promoted technical leader, he has led distributed DevOps teams and defined platform standards used across multiple engineering orgs. He combines deep systems-level experience from early embedded and CI/CD work to current cloud-native platform strategy, with a practical obsession for developer productivity and resilient automation. Based in Yokneam Ilit, Israel, he brings both hands-on implementation skills and cross-team influence to large, complex platform initiatives.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc, communication system engineering, Bsc, communication system engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev