Eliran Turgeman is a software engineer with six years of experience building backend systems across security and cloud-focused companies, now at Microsoft after roles at Palo Alto Networks and Placer.ai. He excels at practical problem-solving and rapid self-directed learning, with hands-on experience contributing to popular open-source tooling like Checkov—implementing MWAA (AWS Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow) log checks and compact JSON output improvements with accompanying unit tests. Comfortable in fast-paced product and research environments, he has moved between R&D and production teams, shipping features that improve infrastructure-as-code security and observability. Based in the Tel Aviv District and grounded in Computer Science studies at Technion and the Open University, he brings a mix of rigorous academic background and pragmatic engineering discipline. Notably, his contributions show attention to test coverage and maintainability, reflecting a bias for robust, production-ready changes.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at The Open University of Israel
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:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:406 reviews, 122 commits, 112 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Eliran's contributions primarily focused on adding and refactoring code related to MWAA worker logs and compact JSON output in the Checkov project. They implemented new checks, modified existing code, and added unit tests to validate changes related to the AWS MWAA environment. The user also removed code blocks and added tests for the compact JSON output in the runner registry. Additionally, the user merged several branches into openapi_checks_e branch.
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
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