Koby Kahane
Software Engineer at SentinelOne
Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolKoby Kahane is a seasoned software engineer based in Tel Aviv with 11 years of professional experience building and maintaining reliable systems across security and infrastructure firms. Since 2016 he has been contributing to SentinelOne’s engineering efforts, following earlier roles at Wizery and multiple consultancy engagements that exposed him to diverse domains and codebases. He’s an active open-source contributor to microsoft/vcpkg, helping keep critical C++ libraries like protobuf, sqlite3, and rocksdb up to date for cross-platform developers. Comfortable with backend and dependency-management challenges, Koby combines hands-on maintenance work with system-level thinking to reduce friction for other engineers. His career began in embedded and defense projects in the IDF, giving him a pragmatic, security-conscious approach that shows up in careful dependency and patch management.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ben Gurion University
Github Skills (13)
dependency-management10
vcpkg10
c-language10
cmake10
lib10
cprogramming-language10
package-management10
lz46
rocksdb6
better-sqlite36
sqlite6
protobuffer6
protobuf6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vcpkg
Jan 2018 - Jan 2023
C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 21 commits, 30 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Koby's contributions primarily involve updating and integrating external C++ libraries within the vcpkg package manager. This includes updating versions of dependencies such as TCLAP, gflags, lz4, protobuf, cryptopp, rocksdb, re2, and sqlite3. They also made updates to related patches and configuration files. The commits demonstrate a focus on maintaining and improving the availability of various C++ libraries within the vcpkg ecosystem.
c-plus-plussetuptoolspackage-managermacoscplusplus
kobykahane/rocksdb
Apr 2018 - Jan 2022
A library that provides an embeddable, persistent key-value store for fast storage.
Contributions:7 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 9 months
persistent-storagenosql-databasefast-storagelsm-treedatabase
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