Or Weis
Co-Founder CEO at Permit.io
Israel
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Top SchoolOr Weis is a serial entrepreneur and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building developer-first products and companies from Israel, including co-founding Rookout (acquired by Dynatrace) and currently leading Permit.io as CEO. He blends hands-on backend and systems engineering—evidenced by contributions to the OPAL open-source policy project—with product and go-to-market leadership that reduces friction for permission and debugging tooling. His background spans low-level systems, security, and SaaS scale-ups, having architected hypervisor-integrated frameworks and production observability platforms. As a podcaster and host, he also amplifies developer and security best practices across the community. An unusual strength: he repeatedly turns intricate engineering problems into developer-friendly services that accelerate adoption and acquisition.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
The Open University
English, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
fastapi10
python10
websocket10
pubsub10
opa9
open-policy-agent9
microservices-application9
microservices9
authorizations8
authorization8
monorepo6
abac6
parsing6
zip6
datetime6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
permitio/opal
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Policy and data administration, distribution, and real-time updates on top of Policy Agents (OPA, Cedar, ...)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:91 reviews, 285 commits, 77 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Or primarily focused on refactoring the codebase to integrate a new library named `fastapi-websocket-pusb`, as seen in their initial commits. This involved modifying the `horizon/policy/rpc.py`, `horizon/policy/updater.py`, and `horizon/main.py` files, demonstrating an understanding of the project's policy update mechanisms. The user then added subscription topics, which indicated an expansion of the messaging infrastructure, likely to accommodate policy and data updates.
opaauthorizationpolicy-as-codepolicyrealtime
orweis/objdict
Jan 2015 - Aug 2020
Objdict - A collection of Dictionary like objects for any task.
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 5 years 7 months
dictionarytupletextmatefinderutility
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