Alon Firestein
Software Engineer at Varonis
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolAlon Firestein is a Cloud Security Developer with six years of software engineering experience, currently building cloud-native security features at Varonis after prior roles at IBM. He blends a formal background in computer science and mathematics with hands-on expertise in Go, Python, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Docker, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud). At IBM he developed storage and data-protection integrations—most notably an OpenShift marketplace plugin for IBM FlashSystem that exports capacity metrics to Prometheus—demonstrating an ability to bridge infrastructure, observability, and platform integrations. Comfortable across Linux environments and automation tooling, he has shipped solutions for backup, storage, and containerized deployments. A former Israel Defense Forces company sergeant major, he brings disciplined leadership and rapid learning to collaborative engineering teams. He’s driven by pragmatic problem solving and enjoys turning complex cloud security requirements into reliable, production-ready tooling.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at Ariel University
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (23)
algorithms10
java10
algorithm9
odf9
operator9
data-structures9
driver9
openshift8
redhat7
sorting-algorithms7
backend6
apartment6
azure-functions5
azure4
serverless3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alonfirestein/SleepyDriverDetectionSystem
Feb 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:31 commits, 22 pushes, 5 branches in 5 months
alonfirestein/Unweighted-Graph
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:73 pushes, 3 branches in 16 days
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