Oren Levy
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolOren Levy is a Principal Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building and operating complex integration and networking-heavy systems, currently driving architectural and delivery work at Red Hat. He combines deep system design expertise—from product and performance to testing and code—with hands-on SRE/DevOps skills honed at Nokia and in professional services roles. An active open-source maintainer and founder of The Foreman smart-proxy ecosystem, his contributions span backend networking, provisioning automation and front-end React improvements across well-known projects like Foreman and Fog. Comfortable managing both development and production teams, he has a track record of turning intricate requirements into robust, deployable solutions and even implemented dynamic Puppet environments to streamline deployments. Unusually for an engineer at this level, he also holds an MA in Law, reflecting a broad analytical perspective on technical and procedural challenges.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Economics and Business Management, BA, Economics and Business Management at Ariel University Center of SemariaPractical Engineer, Computer software, Practical Engineer, Computer software at Tel Aviv UniversityMA, Law, MA, Law at Bar-Ilan University
English
Github Skills (43)
libvirt10
git10
ruby-rails10
puppeteer10
javascript10
foreman10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
puppet10
configuration-management10
rails10
user-interface10
ruby10
automation10
api10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
theforeman/foreman
Jul 2009 - Jul 2021
an application that automates the lifecycle of servers
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 1608 commits, 531 PRs in 12 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Oren contributed to various aspects of the Foreman application. Their work involved fixing bugs, adding new features such as extending the extlookup kind of queries and adding functionality to the UI, and improving existing functionalities by refactoring or adding improvements to the existing code. The user worked in the areas of host management and provisioning, specifically on the hostgroups and parameterization functionalities.
automatesmaasinfrastructure-managementvirtualizationhybrid-cloud
theforeman/smart-proxy
Oct 2010 - Sep 2013
RESTful proxies for DNS, DHCP, TFTP, BMC and Puppet
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:120 commits, 3 PRs, 51 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Oren primarily focused on enhancing the DNS management capabilities of the smart-proxy project. They added new features related to DNS management, including the creation and removal of DNS records, and integrated them into the web interface. The user also refactored the DNS module, transitioning it from a module into a class structure, and implemented a Bind DNS server implementation, which involves interacting with the nsupdate tool. Furthermore, they improved the codebase by addressing typos and refactoring the TFTP module, with specific enhancements in the creation and deletion of TFTP entries.
golangtftpdnspuppetrestful
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