Chen Keinan
Open Source Software Engineer at Aqua Security
Israel
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Top SchoolChen Keinan is a seasoned software engineer and security-focused DevOps practitioner with 10+ years building and leading development of cloud-native security tools and scanning services. He has driven core features and integrations for widely used open-source projects such as Trivy and trivy-operator, implementing RBAC scanning, compliance reports, and Kubernetes API checks while improving test coverage and maintainability. Comfortable across Golang, Rego, CI/CD and Kubernetes, he blends backend engineering with operational expertise to ship secure, scalable pipelines and scanners. Previously a technical lead at Snyk, AppsFlyer, JFrog and others, he pairs hands-on coding with mentoring and CI/CD automation. Based in Israel, he’s an open-source enthusiast and runner who brings a pragmatic, security-first mindset to both tooling and team leadership.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSc studies, Geophysics and Seismology, MSc studies, Geophysics and Seismology at Tel Aviv University
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (26)
kubernetes10
container10
apidoc10
sec10
testing10
it-security10
security10
go10
api10
vulnerability-detection10
kubernetes-pods10
compliance10
cloud-native10
devops10
infrastructure-as-code9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aquasecurity/trivy-operator
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Kubernetes-native security toolkit
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:724 reviews, 243 commits, 1627 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Chen primarily worked on the implementation of the Trivy-Operator with functionality similar to Starboard. Their commits added and modified integration tests, along with updating project dependencies. Further contributions involved updating core project files, including changes to the `go.mod` to manage dependencies for k8s, indicating a focus on back-end development and operational aspects of the project. The user also removed deprecated code and documentation, enhancing maintainability.
golangoctoberfestmisconfigurationsecurity-toolschecklist
aquasecurity/starboard
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
Moved to https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy-operator
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:141 reviews, 40 commits, 163 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Chen primarily contributed to the implementation of compliance reports within the Starboard project. They added support for severity levels in compliance checks and refactored code to utilize TTL checks with date utilities. They also enhanced the CLI with compliance support. Furthermore, the user's commits include modifications in API types and Kubernetes resource definitions demonstrating their involvement with core project functionalities and DevOps aspects.
securitycustom-resource-definitionoperatortrivystarboard
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