Arik Shifer
IBM Watson And Cloud Platform Security Architect
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolArik Shifer is a hands-on full-stack architect and security specialist with 9 years focused at IBM and a two-decade software career spanning startups and enterprise products. He currently architects security for IBM Watson and cloud platforms, bringing deep experience in native cloud, mobile, DevOps and scalable high-availability systems. Arik has a proven track record leading cross-border teams and delivering consumer-grade mobile apps and large-scale cloud services, including an earlier role that drove 400,000+ app downloads. His background combines low-level server and data-integration expertise with mobile SDK design and cloud-native security practices, informed by roles from QA and GUI leadership to platform architecture. Trained as an aerospace engineer with an M.Sc. in industrial engineering and management, he pairs rigorous systems thinking with practical product delivery. He often bridges product, security and operations, turning complex requirements into auditable, production-ready solutions.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc Aerospace Engineering, B.Sc Aerospace Engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyM.Sc Industrial Engineering and Management, M.Sc Industrial Engineering and Management at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (54)
ibm-cloud10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
json-api9
aws9
terraform-registry9
boilerplate8
rest-api8
api8
secrets-manager8
openapi-codegen8
go-client8
couchdb7
json7
javascript7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ArikShifer/terraform-provider-ibm
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
https://registry.terraform.io/providers/IBM-Cloud/ibm/latest/docs
Contributions:16 PRs, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
bare-metalibm-cloudprovidersterraform-registryredfish
mfpdev/handling-large-files-sample
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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