Elay Gliksberg is a seasoned software leader and founder with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and security tooling, now leading an AI infrastructure startup out of Tel Aviv. He rose through engineering and management roles at Bridgecrew and Palo Alto Networks—where he drove cloud security engineering and product integrations—and previously co-founded consumer and enterprise startups. Hands-on with Node.js and DevOps, he has contributed to the widely used Checkov project by adding Kubernetes admission control checks and automating image scanning with Twistlock/Prisma Cloud. Known for blending product intuition with low-level security engineering, he consistently turns complex deployment and scanning challenges into automated, auditable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at The College of Management Academic Studies
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:
DevOps Engineer & Security Engineer
Contributions:11 reviews, 66 commits, 13 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Elay contributed to the security and infrastructure aspects of the Checkov project. They implemented and improved Kubernetes security checks, specifically related to admission control plugins. The user also integrated image scanning capabilities using Twistlock (now Prisma Cloud), automating the scanning process and reporting findings. Furthermore, the user added support to add dockerfile path and branch to docker image scanning.
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