Avishay Bar
Principal Security Architect at Palo Alto Networks
Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolAvishay Bar is a Principal Security Architect with 11 years of hands-on experience bridging cloud engineering, software development, and security across SaaS and enterprise environments. Based in Tel Aviv, he has driven secure AWS architectures, secure SDLC practices, and compliance efforts (SOC2, FedRAMP) at CyberArk and now Palo Alto Networks, while also building CI/CD and cloud orchestration tooling earlier in his career. Equally comfortable in backend, frontend and mobile stacks, he contributes to popular React Native projects—adding iOS push-notification features to OneSignal and maintaining cross-version restart tooling—bringing practical device and mobile insight to security work. He combines pragmatic engineering (home Kubernetes lab, home automation tinkering) with strategic security leadership, making him a trusted advisor to R&D teams implementing cloud-native, auditable systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School Technology Science, High School Technology Science at Handesaim High-School, Tel Aviv University
Hebrew, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
objective-c10
ios10
react-native10
react-native-component10
apple-push-notifications10
push-notifications10
notification10
android9
e-mail6
firebase6
base646
amazon-s36
facebook-graph-api6
google-glass6
facebook6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
OneSignal/react-native-onesignal
Feb 2016 - Feb 2018
React Native Library for OneSignal Push Notifications Service
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:1 release, 174 commits, 64 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Avishay primarily contributed to the iOS side of the React Native OneSignal library. Their commits focused on adding support for push notification features such as sending and deleting tags. They modified the core iOS native code, including adding methods to handle push notification events, user permissions, and device registration. The user also addressed a bug related to handling push notifications after the app was force-closed.
react-native-onesignalreactpushonesignal-notificationsreact-native-library
avishayil/secure_ec2
Jul 2021 - Jan 2022
CLI tool that helps you to provision EC2 instances securely
Contributions:10 releases, 4 reviews, 16 commits in 6 months
instancesec2ec2-instancesprovisioncli-tool
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