Ofer Shezaf
Principal Product Manager at Microsoft
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Ofer Shezaf is a Principal Product Manager and longtime cybersecurity leader with over 30 years of experience shaping SIEM and web application security products and strategy. He helped create and scale Microsoft Sentinel into a $1B+ SIEM product, authored Sentinel’s ASIM normalization framework, and produced the widely viewed Sentinel Ninja training series. Earlier roles include founding Breach Labs and leading the ModSecurity acquisition and WAF innovation, plus senior product leadership at Varonis and HP ArcSight across EMEA. He also built Israel’s early cyber national security practice in the IDF, advised government and critical infrastructure, and led OWASP Israel while contributing to major open-source projects like the ModSecurity CRS. An active engineer as well as product leader, he has hands-on contributions to Azure Sentinel code and CI/CD integrations, blending deep operational experience with product strategy and community impact.
7 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Marketing & Finance, MBA Marketing & Finance at Tel Aviv UniversityB.Sc. Computers Engineering, B.Sc. Computers Engineering at Technion - Israel Technology Institute
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Github Skills (14)
powershell10
azure-functions10
azure-sentinel10
kql10
devops10
python10
cicd9
cybersecurity9
cloud-infrastructure8
infrastructure8
data-engineer7
azure-monitoring6
azure6
azure-log-analytics6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/Azure-Sentinel
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
Cloud-native SIEM for intelligent security analytics for your entire enterprise.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:816 reviews, 1590 commits, 722 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ofer made significant contributions to the `azure/azure-sentinel` repository, with commits involving code changes in Python, PowerShell, and KQL, specifically focusing on the design and implementation of data connectors for integrating various security tools like CrowdStrike, and other functionalities. The user's work included modifying Azure Function code, creating and updating PowerShell scripts, as well as updating ARM templates. Further, the user contributed to building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
cloud-nativesecuritycybersecurity
oshezaf/sentinelninja
Apr 2021 - Jul 2026
My Azure Sentinel Ninja ideas, thoughts and contributions
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
azure-sentinel
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