Ari Zellner
Co-Founder at Innovateam
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAri Zellner is a versatile software engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building Linux-focused, full-stack systems and leading teams from startup CTOs to military intelligence. As co-founder of Innovateam and boring, and former Red Hat engineer, he blends hands-on backend and DevOps work with front-end UI improvements—evidenced by notable ManageIQ contributions that span container management, dashboards, and UI/UX refinements. A native English and Hebrew speaker who rose through IDF intelligence to lead development teams, Ari is comfortable with low-level C, cross-platform C++/Qt, Java/Jython projects, and modern container tooling. He brings a pragmatic, research-driven approach to productizing open source solutions and a proven track record of turning complex infrastructure needs into user-facing features.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at The Open UniversitySoftware developer, Computer Science, Software developer, Computer Science at IDF computer science school (aka. BSMH, MAMRAM)Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at IDC Herzliya
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (26)
container-management10
kubernetes10
ruby-rails10
javascript10
container10
rspec10
rails10
user-interface10
ui-design10
ruby10
uid10
manageiq10
front-end-development10
kubernetes-pods10
ruby-on-rails10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ManageIQ/manageiq-ui-classic
May 2015 - Apr 2018
Classic UI of ManageIQ
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:126 commits, 46 PRs, 145 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ari primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the ManageIQ UI. They implemented new features that linked container groups (pods) to services, added a display name field for container projects, and made improvements to how information is displayed across the containers area. Additionally, they worked on adding persistent storage for docker images and registries within the UI. Furthermore, the user changed 'container groups' to 'pods' throughout the UI for clarity.
reactmanageiq
ManageIQ/manageiq
Mar 2015 - Feb 2018
ManageIQ Open-Source Management Platform
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:185 commits, 262 PRs, 1442 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ari contributed to the ManageIQ platform by implementing new features and fixing bugs primarily related to container management. Their work included adding specs for container route controllers, modifying container image listings, and adding a dashboard for containers. They also made changes to the code related to container topology and the underlying infrastructure, as well as modifying tests. These commits indicate an understanding of the platform's backend and the technologies used.
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