Elad Kaplan
Principal Software Engineer at Spectralops.io - A Check Point Solution
North District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolElad Kaplan is a Principal Software Engineer based in Israel with eight years of focused experience building production-grade backend and infrastructure systems. He has progressed from hands-on PHP development and team leadership to leading production engineering at SimilarWeb and now driving security-focused engineering at Spectralops (a Check Point company). Elad contributes to open-source Rust and cloud-native tooling—most notably enhancing the loco-rs framework’s CLI and core features and adding secret provider integrations to teller—showing a practical bent for developer ergonomics and secure secrets workflows. He blends leadership with deep implementation experience across CI/CD, secrets management, and backend services, and is known for improving developer-facing tooling and authentication flows that reduce friction in real projects.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Netanya Academic College
Hebrew, English
Github Skills (14)
secret-management10
rust10
templater10
template-engine10
secrets10
cli10
vault9
testing9
web-framework9
api8
hashicorp8
axum8
rust-lang8
aws7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
loco-rs/loco
Nov 2023 - Apr 2025
🚂 🦀 The one-person framework for Rust for side-projects and startups
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 181 reviews, 533 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Elad's commits primarily focus on the back-end development aspects of the Loco framework, specifically regarding the creation and enhancement of the command-line interface (CLI) and core functionality. Their work includes adding new features, like the integration of templates, and refining existing ones. Key contributions involve the modification of the generator CLI to improve user experience and flexibility in project creation. Unit tests and related improvements have been made, specifically related to model creation and authentication flows within the framework's core features.
apiaxumrustrust-lang
tellerops/teller
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
Cloud native secrets management for developers - never leave your command line for secrets.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 48 reviews, 98 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Elad contributed to the `tellerops/teller` repository, which is a cloud-native secrets management tool. Their commit adds a password provider, suggesting they're integrating new secret retrieval methods. The code changes reflect modifications to configuration files, likely for incorporating the new provider into the system. This suggests a focus on expanding the secret management capabilities of the application.
herokuvaultgosecrets-managementconjur
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