Dan Sterenson
Backend Software Engineer at Avalor Security (a Zscaler company)
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Sterenson is a senior software engineer and founding engineer with six years of experience building secure, scalable cloud-native systems from the ground up. He has driven platform and authentication refactors at Zscaler, contributed enterprise-grade integrations and CI/CD improvements at Palo Alto Networks’ Cortex XSOAR, and now architects end-to-end infrastructure for a stealth startup. Dan pairs hands-on back-end and security expertise—demonstrated by bug fixes and threat-stream improvements in the widely used Cortex XSOAR content repo—with practical operational ownership across infrastructure, deployment, and product delivery. Based in Israel and grounded in a Computer Science degree from Tel Aviv University, he also brings uncommon experience from video production and Air Force intelligence that sharpens his systems thinking and communication.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Tel Aviv UniversityMor Metro-West Highscholl
Hebrew, English
Github Skills (10)
python10
releasenotes9
security9
api8
debug8
apim8
debugging8
integrations8
api-design8
xml7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
demisto/content
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Demisto is now Cortex XSOAR. Automate and orchestrate your Security Operations with Cortex XSOAR's ever-growing Content Repository. Pull Requests are always welcome and highly appreciated!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:405 reviews, 163 commits, 597 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Dan made several code contributions, primarily focused on fixing bugs related to an HTTPFeedApiModule, Cybereason malop processes, and AWS-GuardDuty datetime issues. They also implemented functionality to convert a string to camel case with the first letter not capitalised. In addition to these fixes, the user contributed to enhance the Anomali threat stream tags data and fix vulnerabilities.
containerscortexsecurity-toolsorchestrationsecurity-operations
dansterenson/Noesis
Dec 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:108 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 1 year
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