Meir Wahnon
Co-Founder at Descope
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolMeir Wahnon is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building and scaling security and orchestration products from founding teams to executive roles. As Co-Founder of Descope and former Senior Director of Engineering at Palo Alto Networks, he blends hands-on engineering with product and team leadership across cloud-native security and automation domains. He was an early technical leader at Demisto (now Cortex XSOAR), contributing to incident response automation and CI/test infrastructure while rising from founding engineer to director. Meir is an active open-source contributor, adding Python and Go integrations to high-profile projects like Cortex XSOAR and Facebook’s ThreatExchange, demonstrating practical expertise in backend systems and security APIs. Based in Tel Aviv, he pairs a BSc in Computer Science with a track record of turning security orchestration concepts into production-ready, testable tooling.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
English, Hebrew, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
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go10
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python10
apidoc10
testing10
cicd9
yaml9
dockers7
docker7
bash7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
demisto/content
Aug 2016 - Mar 2020
Demisto is now Cortex XSOAR. Automate and orchestrate your Security Operations with Cortex XSOAR's ever-growing Content Repository. Pull Requests are always welcome and highly appreciated!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 679 commits, 448 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Meir contributed to the Demisto/Cortex XSOAR content repository by implementing and modifying Python scripts related to incident response automation. Their work included refactoring and enhancing existing scripts (e.g., `release_notes.py`, `release_notes_clear.py`, `Tests/test_content.py`), as well as improving the testing infrastructure, and fixing bugs. The user also made changes to support continuous integration, with a focus on test and build infrastructure, and contributed to the removal of release notes, and updates to the docker image pull process.
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facebook/ThreatExchange
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Trust & Safety tools for working together to fight digital harms.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Meir primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the ThreatExchange client. They added a Go client for interacting with the ThreatExchange API. The user implemented several methods for retrieving data like threat indicators, malware analyses, and malware families. The changes also included improvements to the API and fixing a missing parameter.
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