Ariel Seftel
Global Director Technical Support Excellence at JFrog
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolAriel Seftel is a seasoned technical leader with 12 years in the software industry, currently serving as Global Director Technical Support Excellence at JFrog. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Linux, CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo), package managers and containerization (Docker, Maven, NPM, Bower) with a long track record of building and leading high-touch customer-facing engineering teams. Ariel rose through technical support and technical account management roles at JFrog, driving architecture reviews, product feedback loops, and large-scale operational improvements for enterprise customers. His open-source contributions to popular JFrog repos show practical DevOps skill—creating log-scrubbing and archiving scripts and improving Artifactory plugins for safer, more reliable deployments. Known for bridging technical depth with stakeholder management, he translates complex operational challenges into actionable product and support strategies.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Industrial Menegment, B.A., Industrial Menegment at Sapir CollegeJava Programming, Java Programming at John BryceComputers, Computers at Gedera
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (15)
sh10
script10
bash10
shell10
scripting10
groovy10
artifactory10
build-automation9
log-analysis9
automation9
automations9
data-security8
cron8
tar8
devops7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jfrog/artifactory-scripts
Mar 2015 - Jun 2020
Scripts for Artifactory (Usually, for REST API), community driven.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 24 commits, 3 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ariel primarily focused on creating and modifying shell scripts related to log processing and data masking within the Artifactory environment. They introduced a script for scrubbing sensitive data (IP addresses, user IDs) from logs and updated existing scripts. The user also made changes to the archiving process of the processed files, transitioning from zip to tar for broader compatibility and addressing a bug related to the process. Their work demonstrates an understanding of log management and data security practices within a DevOps context.
artifactoryrestrest-api
jfrog/artifactory-user-plugins
Apr 2014 - Feb 2019
Sample Artifactory User Plugins
Role in this project:Back-end Engineer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Engineer & DevOps EngineerContributions:18 commits, 3 PRs, 14 pushes in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ariel primarily focused on modifying and improving existing Artifactory user plugins. Their contributions included updating Groovy scripts, specifically focusing on build and artifact cleanup processes. The user addressed issues related to cron job scheduling, configuration loading, and logging verbosity. Furthermore, they made adjustments to the build replication functionality and also fixed typos in the explanation documentation.
artifactory
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