Itamar Knafo is a DevOps-focused entrepreneur and Co-Founder & CEO based in San Francisco, with eight years of hands-on experience building resilient, cloud-native tooling and open-source software. He has led DevOps and observability initiatives in the Israel Defense Forces, mentoring teams in cloud architecture, containerization, and scalable system design while advocating strong community collaboration. Skilled in Go, C#, and Python, he combines product leadership with low-level engineering to deliver highly available platforms and developer-centric tools. An active open-source enthusiast, he brings a pragmatic, security-conscious approach to moving projects from prototype to production and is now applying that playbook to a stealth AI startup.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Technician, Computer Science, Technician, Computer Science at ORT Colleges
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Science at The Open University of Israel
Columbus is a cloud-based search platform for searching hosted cloud apps on your personal Kubernetes.
Contributions:12 PRs, 39 pushes, 10 branches in 6 months
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Itamar Knafo - Co-Founder & CEO at Stealth AI Startup