Nimrod Kor
Co-Founder & CTO at Baz
Israel
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Top SchoolNimrod Kor is a Co-Founder and CTO with a decade of experience building cloud-native security and backend systems from Israel. He rose through technical and customer-facing roles at Bridgecrew—moving from Solutions Architect to Software Engineering Manager—where he led teams and contributed substantive open-source work improving cloud security checks for GCP and AWS. His contributions to well-known projects like Checkov and CloudMapper show a focus on infrastructure-as-code scanning, IAM reporting, and federated identity handling, blending DevOps rigor with secure-by-design engineering. Prior roles span backend and mobile development and an early analytical career in military intelligence, giving him a rare mix of operational security mindset and product delivery instincts. He holds studies in Computer Science and Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Ben-Gurion University and brings founder-level product sensibility to technical leadership.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Hebrew, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (21)
kubernetes10
python10
cloud-infrastructure10
terraform10
gcp10
terraformer10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
infrastructure-as-code10
ias10
sec9
static-analysis9
security9
it-security9
devops9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bridgecrewio/checkov
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:1081 reviews, 3028 commits, 887 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Nimrod focused on expanding GCP checks for Checkov, demonstrating an ability to identify and implement security best practices for GCP infrastructure-as-code. They implemented new checks for Cloud SQL databases, container node pools, and Kubernetes Engine Clusters, contributing to the project's goal of preventing cloud misconfigurations. The contributions included writing new check files in Python, adding new test cases for the checks, and modifying existing checks. They also improved descriptions and updated categories for these checks to ensure they are categorized correctly.
gcppolicy-as-codecomplianceaws-securityaws
duo-labs/cloudmapper
Aug 2019 - Mar 2020
CloudMapper helps you analyze your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments.
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer
Cloud EngineerContributions:18 commits, 10 PRs, 3 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Nimrod primarily contributed to the infrastructure and reporting aspects of the cloudmapper project. Their commits included modifying code related to IAM reporting, adding output formats (JSON), and fixing federation logic for various identity providers. They also worked on the web of trust functionality and made changes to the collect and prepare commands. The user demonstrated skills in modifying existing features and adding new capabilities related to AWS environment analysis.
aws-web-servicessecurityamazonaws-lambdaweb-services
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