Kfir Peled
Principal Software Engineer at Elastic
Israel
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Top SchoolKfir Peled is a Principal Software Engineer based in Israel with a decade of professional development experience and a strong track record in security-focused backend systems. He progressed from developer and DevOps roles to engineering manager and now principal engineer at Elastic, contributing notably to the widely used Elastic Stack by refactoring and hardening the Cloud Security Posture Management plugin in Kibana. His background includes mission-critical work in Unit 8200 and startups focused on authorization and policy (build.security), giving him deep expertise in access control, cloud security, and scalable API design. Kfir combines hands-on coding with people leadership, having managed engineering teams through acquisition and product integration. He brings a pragmatic, security-first mindset to complex distributed systems and a proven ability to ship maintainable, auditable solutions in open-source ecosystems.
6 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Computer Science, B.A. Computer Science at Reichman UniversityComputer Programming, Computer Programming at IDF's Computer Professions School (a.k.a. Mamram/Basmach)
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (11)
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api10
apidoc10
kibana10
typescript-types10
react8
wordpress-graphql7
cicd7
wpgraphql7
graphql7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:543 reviews, 20 commits, 155 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Kfir primarily focused on refactoring and improving the cloud security posture management (CSPM) plugin's APIs, including refactoring the APIs to internal. The user also contributed to the cloud security posture plugin by initializing the plugin during package creation and on start if the package is installed. These changes involved modifying existing files and adding new files to accommodate the new features of the cloud security posture management plugin.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
kfirpeled/cloudbeat
Apr 2022 - Aug 2023
Beat containing opa sdk to run rego eval on cloud native resources
Contributions:20 PRs, 86 pushes, 18 branches in 1 year 4 months
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