Barak Goihman
Partner at Amplication
Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolBarak Goihman is a seasoned technology leader and investor with 11 years of experience building and scaling cloud, security, and big data platforms from Tel Aviv. As co-founder and CTO of Bridgecrew (creator of the popular open-source Checkov) and later Chief Architect at Palo Alto Networks, he blends hands-on engineering in DevOps/DevSecOps with product and open-source stewardship. Now a Partner at Battery Ventures and active angel investor, he focuses on AI, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and developer tooling. His background spans building production ML-driven analytics at Fortscale/RSA and leading a 20-engineer big data team in the IDF, giving him rare operational and security-first perspectives. Known for refactoring core systems and owning CI/CD and IaC security checks, he brings pragmatic, code-first leadership to early-stage and scale-stage companies.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at The College of Management Academic StudiesMaster of Business Administration (MBA) Information Technology, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Information Technology at Bar-Ilan University
English, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
terraformer10
infrastructure-as-code10
aws10
devops10
python10
terraform10
cicd10
security9
active-directory6
static-analysis6
nodejs6
gis6
mongodb6
checkov6
airflow6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
bridgecrewio/checkov
Nov 2019 - Aug 2022
Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:318 releases, 307 reviews, 1092 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Barak appears to be refactoring the project hierarchy, which involves changes to the core functionality, and setting up and maintaining the CI/CD pipeline using Git and Docker. The user is also building and working on checks for AWS resources, showcasing strong knowledge and skills related to cloud infrastructure, security, and the application of IaC best practices. The user has demonstrated the ability to both implement back-end code and configure deployment infrastructure.
gcppolicy-as-codecomplianceaws-securityaws
bridgecrewio/bridgecrew-integrations
Aug 2019 - Nov 2019
Integrations that supported by Bridgecrew. Each integration collect data from different sensors and send the log data to Bridgecrew
Contributions:57 commits, 2 PRs, 49 pushes in 3 months
collectsensorsbridgecrewsupportedintegrations
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