Karni Wolf
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Engineering Managers IL
Israel
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Top SchoolKarni Wolf is a Senior Software Engineering Manager based in Israel with seven years of experience leading engineering teams and shipping production-grade cloud and security tooling. She progressed through technical roles into management at Snyk and now leads engineering at Dynatrace, combining hands-on contributions to open-source security projects (notably fixes and enhancements in Snyk’s CLI and driftctl) with people and delivery leadership. Karni co-founded Engineering Managers IL, a 1,300+ member community, reflecting her commitment to mentorship and managerial craft beyond the org chart. Her background includes full-stack and infrastructure work—recommendation systems, IaC, and large-scale services—so she bridges product, security, and cloud-native engineering effectively. An operator who still steps into code, she’s known for pragmatic fixes that improve developer UX and security signal clarity in open-source tooling.
7 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Github Skills (17)
dependency-management10
go-modules10
docker10
vulnerability-management10
dockers10
terraform10
security10
terraformer10
go10
aws10
infrastructure-as-code10
javascript8
api7
apidoc7
typescripts5
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
snyk/cli
Oct 2018 - Oct 2022
Snyk CLI scans and monitors your projects for security vulnerabilities.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:1 release, 7 reviews, 31 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Karni contributed to the Snyk CLI project by fixing a bug related to the display of vulnerable paths count in docker tests, ensuring that the CLI doesn't display inaccurate information. They also worked on enhancing the CLI's functionality for docker, adding suggestions for using the `--file` option and displaying remediation advice for base images. Additional contributions include updating the project to exclude base image vulnerabilities, excluding docker base image vulns from display, and refactoring how binary vulnerabilities are displayed in the test results.
monitorssarifmonitorsecurity-toolsvulnerabilities
snyk/driftctl
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Detect, track and alert on infrastructure drift
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:16 reviews, 7 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Karni primarily contributed to infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and dependency management within the `snyk/driftctl` repository. Their work included adding support for AWS API Gateway V2 resources, as well as updating dependencies, and ensuring the project's modules are current, and fixing vulnerabilities. Furthermore, the user made minor changes in code formatting. Their contributions likely aimed at enhancing the tool's capabilities and maintaining the project's integrity.
alertdevopsinfrastructuredetectinfrastructure-as-code
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