Oded Ben-ozer
Platform Engineering Manager
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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SeniorOded Ben-ozer is a Platform Engineering Manager based in Berlin with over a decade building cloud-native, open-source driven infrastructure across startups and large enterprises. He blends hands-on engineering—working deeply with Kubernetes, GitOps, containers, and private cloud tooling—with pragmatic leadership, having led SRE teams and scaled platform capabilities for high-budget e-commerce and logistics businesses. Known for clear, opinionated solutions, he authors RFCs and POCs to improve developer UX for provisioning workloads (recently using Crossplane and ArgoCD) and contributes to notable open-source projects such as enhancing the OIDC connector in the dex identity provider. Comfortable across the stack from bare-metal provisioning to distributed monitoring and service discovery, he emphasizes cost-conscious, resilient designs that align tightly with business needs. A practical believer in free software, cheap hardware, and smart teams, he often surfaces subtle operational improvements that reduce toil while increasing reliability.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (8)
openid-connect10
openidc10
oid10
go10
testing10
json8
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dexidp/dex
Jul 2023 - Aug 2023
OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity and OAuth 2.0 provider with pluggable connectors
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 3 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Oded primarily contributed to the OIDC connector within the dexidp/dex repository. Their work focused on enhancing the connector's functionality by adding the ability to composite new claims based on existing claims. This involved modifying code to incorporate claim concatenation, improve test coverage, and address code review feedback related to naming and code structure. The user also refactored the code to improve readability and addressed linting issues.
openidoidcprovideridpoauth-2
commercetools/telefonistka
Mar 2024 - Apr 2025
Safe and Controlled GitOps Promotion Across Environments/Failure-Domains
Contributions:22 releases, 64 reviews, 53 PRs in 1 year
audit-special-deliverycommercetools-scp
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