Darya Freund is a software engineer based in Tel Aviv with five years of experience building secure, production-grade systems across cloud and on-prem environments. She has driven end-to-end projects at Palo Alto Networks—modernizing CI/CD, adapting Cortex XSOAR content for XSIAM, and mentoring new engineers—and now focuses on detection algorithms and cyber product cloud services at Microsoft using C# and Rust. Her background includes hands-on security engineering contributions to the high-profile Cortex XSOAR content repo, where she fixed vulnerabilities and improved backend command implementations. Early career roles in the IDF and enterprise support gave her strong operational instincts and a knack for solving high-priority incidents under pressure. Academically she pairs a top-scoring computer science bachelor's from Ben-Gurion University with ongoing master's studies, blending rigorous theory with practical delivery. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic engineer who moves fluidly between tooling, integrations, and low-level agent development.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Reichman University (IDC Herzliya)
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 91.3, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 91.3 at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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 & Security Engineer
Contributions:545 reviews, 250 commits, 500 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Darya primarily focused on back-end development, contributing code to implement command enhancements. They added message ID fields to a command. They fixed a vulnerability that they found. They have also implemented other miscellaneous fixes to the code.
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Contributions:189 commits in 4 months
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