Gal Bashan
Co-Founder & CTO at Cisco
Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolGal Bashan is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 8 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native and cyber-security products. As Epsagon’s first employee she grew the engineering organization from 1 to 50 and helped drive the company to a $500M acquisition by Cisco, then continued at Cisco leading AI security and ASPM efforts within its CNAPP platform. She combines hands-on product engineering, team-building and security domain expertise—shaping agentic AI visions and operational security for large enterprises. Prior work in Israeli Military Intelligence involved creating first-of-its-kind cyber systems and coordinating cross-organization development, underscoring her ability to deliver mission-critical solutions. Based in Tel-Aviv, she now co-founds and CTOs a stealth startup while retaining a focus on pragmatic, business-aligned technology decisions. Gal pairs startup grit with enterprise-scale execution and a track record of turning early-stage ideas into strategic assets.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc), Computer Science at The Open University of Israel
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (98)
web-application10
distributed-tracing10
instrumentation10
security10
opentelemetry10
lambda-functions10
javascript10
openwhisk10
owasp10
sdk10
lambda10
vulnerabilities10
serverless-plugin10
debugging10
aws-lambda10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
epsagon/epsagon-java
Jan 2019 - Dec 2021
Automated tracing library for Java ⚡️
Contributions:20 releases, 5 reviews, 36 PRs in 2 years 11 months
lambda-functionsaws-lambdaserverlesstracingobservability
galbash/hopfield-network-example
May 2020 - Mar 2024
An example of using a hopfield network for ranking mates
Contributions:3 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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