Michael Kedar
Software Engineer at Google
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Kedar is a software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building secure, production-grade systems, currently at Google in the Greater Sydney area. He blends backend development, DevOps and security expertise—contributing to prominent open-source projects like Google's OSV vulnerability scanner and osv.dev by improving gitignore handling, CycloneDX parsing, and automating GCP deployments with Terraform. Trained in mechatronic engineering (Hons) and computer science with AI, he brings a rare combination of systems-level thinking and practical security automation. Previously he applied signal processing and embedded-software skills at Sonartech Atlas and supported computing education at UNSW, showing a consistent focus on robust engineering and knowledge sharing.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
Github Skills (18)
docker10
vulnerability-scanners10
it-security10
dockers10
terraform10
cicd10
security10
gcp10
terraformer10
go10
scanning10
git9
file-parsing9
python8
kubernetes7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
google/osv.dev
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Open source vulnerability DB and triage service.
Role in this project:
DevOps & Security Engineer
DevOps & Security EngineerContributions:608 reviews, 15 commits, 435 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on improving the project's infrastructure and security posture. They implemented Terraform configurations for managing the API deployments on GCP, including setting up required resources for the `oss-vdb-test` project. Furthermore, they made changes to the worker build process, added exporter and importer support for the test environment, and fixed a broken test related to ecosystem filtering. Their contributions demonstrate a focus on automating deployments and ensuring the correct functionality of the vulnerability database service.
security-toolsopenvasvulnerability-managementsecurityvulnerability-detection
google/osv-scanner
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
Vulnerability scanner written in Go which uses the data provided by https://osv.dev
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:247 reviews, 6 commits, 163 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael implemented features to enhance the security and functionality of the OSV-Scanner. This involved the development of a feature to respect `.gitignore` files, which improves scanning accuracy. The user also made improvements to gitignore parsing to handle non-git files and resolve potential issues. They further addressed vulnerabilities related to parsing CycloneDX components and improved the handling of aliased vulnerabilities.
security-auditscannergolangsecurity-toolsopenvas
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