Eli Polonsky
Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Israel
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Top SchoolEli Polonsky is a Senior Software Development Engineer based in Israel with 13 years of experience building cloud-native, distributed systems and developer tooling. At AWS he helped lead the AWS CDK and CDK for Kubernetes from alpha to GA, bringing deep expertise in infrastructure-as-code, Kubernetes abstractions, and release automation. His open-source contributions span high-profile projects like projen, jsii and cdk8s, where he improved dependency workflows, multi-branch releases, Go runtime compliance, and Kubernetes object ordering—demonstrating a knack for solving tricky build, release and cross-language integration problems. Earlier roles at AppsFlyer, Loom Systems and Cloudify showcase hands-on work in real-time data pipelines, anomaly detection, and orchestration platforms, plus mentoring and platform-level design. He combines backend and DevOps fluency (Go, Python, Java, AWS, Docker) with a practical focus on reliability, automation, and developer experience.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer science and Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer science and Physics at Tel Aviv University
Russian, Hebrew, English
Github Skills (23)
dependency-management10
kubernetes10
github-ci10
testing10
typescript10
repos10
cicd10
cross-language10
release-management10
automation10
go10
typescript-types10
kubernetes-pods10
automations10
typescripts10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cdk8s-team/cdk8s
May 2020 - Oct 2022
Define Kubernetes native apps and abstractions using object-oriented programming
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:385 reviews, 100 commits, 182 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Eli's primary contribution focuses on enhancing the cdk8s library's functionality. They implemented features to manage dependencies and ordering of Kubernetes objects and charts, including refactoring of the `spec` fields. The user also fixed pre-release dependency issues, and replaced spec classes input with interfaces. Their work also included refactoring ingress rules, and updating python examples.
object-oriented-programmingkubernetesabstractionsnative-appsobject-oriented
projen/projen
May 2021 - Sep 2022
Rapidly build modern applications with advanced configuration management
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:176 reviews, 28 commits, 41 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Eli focused on improving the build and release processes of the `projen/projen` repository. They addressed issues in the dependency upgrade workflow by implementing fixes for transitive dependencies and enabling multi-branch upgrades. The user also enhanced the build workflow by adding artifact uploads and downloads. Furthermore, they improved the release process by addressing changelog generation and ensuring proper artifact handling, including the addition of a way to configure pre-publishing steps for GitHub releases.
scaffoldingrepository-toolstemplatesgeneratorsrepository-management
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