Summary
Igor Zhivilo is a DevOps Technical Lead with 11 years of engineering experience and over 8 years focused on DevOps and DevSecOps, currently leading infrastructure and cloud security efforts at Axonius. He designs and automates cloud-native platforms with AWS EKS/AKS, Terraform/Terraspace, ArgoCD GitOps and CI/CD pipelines, embedding policy-as-code and continuous threat detection into software delivery. Igor has driven SOC 2 and C5 compliance automation, FinOps cost optimizations, and runtime hardening using tools like GuardDuty, Falco, Wiz and Kyverno to scale secure environments. He mentors teams on SRE practices and GitOps workflows, and has repeatedly improved reliability and cost-efficiency across startups and enterprise projects. Based in Israel, he also writes about DevOps and cloud security, blending hands-on implementation with practical governance and observable evidence of risk reduction.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - B.Sc in Information Systems Engineering ISE - Information Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Science - B.Sc in Information Systems Engineering ISE - Information Systems Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev