Alon Zivony
Research Scientist at aquasecurity
Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolAlon Zivony is a research scientist and security-focused back-end engineer with four years of professional experience building and hardening Linux runtime security tooling. At Aqua Security he drove key enhancements to the open-source Tracee eBPF project—adding system call support, event-origin filtering, and BPF-level fixes that improve forensic accuracy and observability. His background in Unit 8200 and as an R&D course instructor reflects a strong foundation in embedded systems, applied research, and technical training. Based in Tel Aviv, he blends low-level systems expertise with pragmatic contributions to high-impact open-source security tooling. An uncommon detail: his academic path started in chemistry, suggesting a methodical, experimental approach to problem solving that he applies to systems security.
4 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry at Tel Aviv UniversityIASA - Israeli Arts and Science Academy
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Github Skills (12)
kernel10
it-security10
run-time10
go10
system-programming10
linux-kernel10
ebpf10
security10
dockers7
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
docker7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
aquasecurity/tracee
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Linux Runtime Security and Forensics using eBPF
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:360 reviews, 99 commits, 178 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Alon contributed significantly to the `tracee` project, focusing on enhancing the security and functionality of the eBPF-based Linux runtime security tool. They implemented features related to event origin filtering, ensuring accurate identification of event sources. Furthermore, they added new system calls, enhanced existing events, and addressed bugs. They also made changes to the BPF code, and added the support to display the system call id inside events
bpfgolangsecurity-toolssecurityruntime
AlonZivony/tracee
Jul 2021 - Jun 2024
Linux Runtime Security and Forensics using eBPF
Contributions:731 pushes, 294 branches, 1 comment in 2 years 11 months
bpfsecurity-toolssecurityruntimelinux
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