Moshe Vayner
Senior II Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolMoshe Vayner is a Senior II Software Engineer in Atlanta with 10 years of experience building cloud-native, Kubernetes-first platforms and automation tooling. He blends hands-on engineering in Python and Go with pragmatic DevOps leadership—having built US DevOps teams, modernized CI/CD to GitHub Actions, and led Zero Trust and WAF rollouts. An active Kubernetes contributor since 2020, Moshe has made tangible upstream contributions to the official Python Kubernetes client and kOps, including CNI versioning and platform-specific fixes. He has a track record of shipping production-grade operators and deployment tooling at companies like SalesLoft, Sysdig, and Akamai, and founded a startup where he architected the entire backend and infra stack. Certified CKA, CKAD, and CKS, he pairs mentorship and knowledge-sharing with a bias for automation and reliable infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at ORT Henry RonsonPractical Engineer (Associate Degree), Computer Software Engineering, Practical Engineer (Associate Degree), Computer Software Engineering at ORT Colleges
Hebrew, English
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Github Skills (24)
kubernetes10
py10
python10
networking10
standard-library10
python-client10
aws10
configuration-file10
kubernetes-pods10
configurations10
backward-compatibility9
automation9
go9
cnc9
automations9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/kops
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:39 reviews, 146 commits, 160 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Moshe primarily focused on updating and managing the Amazon VPC CNI within the Kubernetes Operations (kOps) project. Their contributions involve bumping CNI versions, ensuring compatibility with the latest Kubernetes versions, and incorporating default environment variables from the upstream AWS VPC CNI Helm chart. They also addressed platform-specific issues, specifically implementing a fix for Ubuntu 22.04 related to `MACAddressPolicy` configuration. This work indicates a focus on maintaining and improving the integration of AWS networking components within the kOps platform.
containersgcphelmlinodeinstallation
kubernetes-client/python
Dec 2020 - Jun 2021
Official Python client library for kubernetes
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 4 PRs, 88 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Moshe primarily contributed to the Python client library for Kubernetes, focusing on the configuration aspects. They implemented a wrapper method for loading configurations and documented the parameters. The user made changes related to file path handling, initially utilizing `pathlib` and later reverting to maintain compatibility with Python 2. They also addressed coding style issues with auto-formatting tools.
pythonclient-librarypython-clientk8skubernetes
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