Liora Milbaum
Platform Engineering Architect
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolLiora Milbaum is a Platform Engineering Architect and senior principal software engineer with 11+ years of cloud, DevOps and platform experience, currently driving security and secrets management initiatives at Red Hat from Tel Aviv. She blends hands-on engineering with product ownership, having built CI/CD pipelines and nurtured DevOps culture for in-vehicle OS toolchains and enterprise platforms. A pragmatic leader, she couples architecture-level decisions (IAM to OIDC/instance-profile migrations) with developer-focused automation and testing improvements. Her open-source contributions span notable projects like python-gitlab and Renovate, where she strengthened CI, added package/plugin support and modernized testing workflows. She has a long track record of growing teams and businesses—from founding an ALM consultancy that scaled to ~20 specialists to leading community career paths in DevOps. Known for prioritizing culture over tools, she brings a rare combination of deep configuration-management roots and modern platform engineering practice.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BSC Mathematics and Computer Science, BSC Mathematics and Computer Science at Tel Aviv UniversityBrener, Petach Tikva
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (24)
dependency-management10
docker10
pytest10
gitlab-api10
python10
dockers10
gitlab10
api10
api-design9
testing9
cicd9
github9
apidoc9
documentation9
back-end-development8
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
python-gitlab/python-gitlab
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
A python wrapper for the GitLab API.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:104 reviews, 16 commits, 32 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Liora primarily contributed to documentation updates, clarifying the usage of GitLab API wrappers and CLI tools within the project. They also implemented functional tests for topics and made code refactoring changes. The user demonstrated expertise by integrating pytest-docker fixtures and setting up the CI/CD pipeline to rerun tests based on PR comments, enhancing the project's testing and automation infrastructure. Additionally, they modernized the project by incorporating recent backend HTTP changes.
apigitlab-apigitlab-cipythongitlab-cli
renovatebot/renovate
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Home of the Renovate CLI: Cross-platform Dependency Automation by Mend.io
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:33 reviews, 2 commits, 26 PRs in 2 days
Contributions summary:Liora primarily contributed to extending the functionality of the Renovate CLI, focusing on integrating support for various package managers and plugins within the asdf ecosystem. Their work involved adding support for pnpm, terragrunt, and pulumi plugins, enhancing the tool's versatility. Additionally, the user addressed Docker-related issues, refactoring code for improved readability and fixing bugs in the datasource implementation. The contributions span across multiple areas, including dependency management and infrastructure integration.
dependenciesdependencies-checkingbitbucketgitlabupdate
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