Lior Kesos
Chief Technology Officer at HOSSTED
Israel
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Top SchoolLior Kesos is a veteran technology leader and CTO with over 25 years of open-source leadership and 16 years of commercial engineering experience, currently shaping DevOps and cloud-native strategy at Hossted. He founded the Israeli Drupal community and the mean.io project (notable in the MEAN ecosystem), and combines hands-on full-stack development with deep expertise in Kubernetes and distributed microservice architectures. Lior has a track record of founding companies and driving technical vision—from Linnovate and Stacksight to advisory roles for startups and enterprise teams. Comfortable at the intersection of product, sales and engineering, he excels at building teams, scalable platforms and sustainable open-source ecosystems. A father of five who still considers himself a geek at heart, he brings both practical systems-smanship and community-first thinking to complex cloud-native challenges.
16 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Certified Unix System Administration, Certified Unix System Administration at Sela InstituteOrt Maalot
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
expressjs10
meanjs10
css10
j10
angularjs10
nodejs10
angular10
mean10
mongodb-database9
mongodb9
html9
bootstra7
bootstrap7
elasticsearch6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
linnovate/mean
Jun 2013 - May 2020
The MEAN stack uses Mongo, Express, Angular(6) and Node for simple and scalable fullstack js applications
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 548 commits, 219 PRs in 7 years
Contributions summary:Lior made several commits primarily focused on front-end and minor back-end modifications within the MEAN stack project. Their work included adding a footer element, integrating a mean-module, and fixing a deprecation warning. Further commits also included commenting and un-commenting a logger and merging code from master, and contributions to the signup, signin, and articles section's view files. These contributions show a focus on UI enhancements and minor structural adjustments within the existing project structure.
expressmongo-expressmongoosemongodbjavascript
meanjs/mean
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
MEAN.JS - Full-Stack JavaScript Using MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js -
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 comments in 18 days
Contributions summary:Lior primarily focused on front-end and some back-end development tasks within this MEAN.JS project. Their contributions involved adding and modifying UI elements, including the footer, and updating the header. They also addressed and resolved a deprecation warning in the Jade template files. Moreover, they made minor adjustments to the server-side code by commenting out the `mean-logger` initialization.
expressjsexpress-mongodbnode-jsfull-stackjavascript
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