Liya Katz
DevOps Lead at Comet
Israel
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Top SchoolLiya Katz is a DevOps leader with 15 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure across startups and enterprise engagements, currently leading DevOps at Comet in Israel. She combines hands-on engineering—Helm chart authoring, CI/CD improvements, New Relic monitoring integrations—with team and architectural leadership from prior roles as Head of DevOps and DevOps Architect. Her work on the comet-ml/opik project highlights practical expertise deploying and testing LLM and RAG-related tooling, bridging ML workflows to production. Trained in computer science with a management and economics background, she pairs technical depth with a pragmatic sense for operational reliability and cost-effective design. Outside engineering she has a long history as a professional photographer, an uncommon creative lens that informs her attention to detail and user-focused observability. Colleagues rely on her to translate complex systems into repeatable, well-instrumented delivery pipelines.
15 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Management & Economics, Management & Economics at Academic College of Tel-Aviv - Jaffa (MTA)
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Github Skills (16)
kubernetes10
github-ci10
docker10
githubaction-workflow10
helm10
dockers10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
cloud-infrastructure9
infrastructure9
llmops8
python7
testing7
openai5
langchain4
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
comet-ml/opik
Aug 2023 - Apr 2025
Debug, evaluate, and monitor your LLM applications, RAG systems, and agentic workflows with comprehensive tracing, automated evaluations, and production-ready dashboards.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 52 reviews, 121 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Liya primarily focused on configuring and maintaining the project's deployment and infrastructure. Their contributions include updates and fixes to the Helm chart, including versioning, dependencies, and application configuration, as well as improvements to the build and deployment processes. The user was also involved in incorporating the New Relic agent for monitoring and adding tests for the SDK. They also set up local installation instructions.
langchainllama-indexllmllm-evaluationllm-observability
tikalk/docker-youtube-remote
Dec 2015 - Feb 2020
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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