Nissan Itzhakov
DevEx Team Lead at Cyera
Israel
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Top SchoolNissan Itzhakov is a DevEx team lead and cloud-native engineering leader with 11+ years of experience building scalable infrastructure, modernizing monoliths into microservices, and operating large Kubernetes estates. He has founded and grown Developer Experience teams, led CI/CD and cloud platform efforts for 200+ engineer organizations, and managed clusters hosting thousands of services while improving developer velocity and reliability. Nissan combines hands-on Python and Kubernetes expertise with a talent for recruiting and mentoring engineers, having personally built teams and internal tools that became company standards. Notably, he led the Dynamic Environment Kubernetes operator initiative at Riskified, which evolved into an open-source project to accelerate on-demand development environments. Based in Israel, he focuses on resilient systems and developer productivity, bridging deep technical execution with practical leadership.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.A Computer Science, B.A Computer Science at The College of Management Academic Studies
English, Hebrew, Russian
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Github Skills (58)
autoscaling10
kubernetes10
keda10
charts10
event-driven10
scale10
helm10
serverless10
docker9
credit9
k8s9
development-environment8
proxies8
aws8
scraper8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nissanitz/moneyman
Sep 2023 - Apr 2025
Automatically save transactions from all major Israeli banks and credit card companies, using GitHub actions (or a self hosted docker image)
Contributions:6 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Riskified/dynamic-environment
Dec 2023 - Jul 2024
dynamic-environment
Contributions:2 releases, 14 reviews, 16 PRs in 7 months
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