Ori Shavit
Senior Software Engineer at Cyera
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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RockstarOri Shavit is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with a decade of experience building secure, production-grade backend systems across startups and scale-ups. His background spans security research in Unit 8200 to engineering roles at SentinelOne, Rookout, Permit.io, Otterize, and currently Cyera, blending deep security sensibilities with practical engineering. He contributes to open-source projects like permitio/opal, where he streamlined installation, dependency management, and added features to support policy-scoped real-time updates using Celery and policy agents. Comfortable operating at the intersection of policy, observability, and distributed systems, Ori excels at refactoring complex codebases to improve reliability and developer experience. Colleagues rely on him to translate security and compliance needs into maintainable backend APIs and automation.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (13)
dependency-management10
fastapi10
python10
celery9
microservices8
microservices-application8
git8
websocket-client7
authorization7
client-websocket7
authorizations7
websockets-client7
websocket7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
permitio/opal
Mar 2022 - 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:34 reviews, 81 commits, 66 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Ori primarily contributed to refactoring installation scripts and addressing missing dependencies across the opal-server, opal-client, and opal-common packages. They made several updates to the setup.py files in each package, streamlining the build process. They also focused on dependency management by adding and fixing missing imports across multiple packages. The user made modifications to support the OPAL Scopes feature, including the addition of an API and the definition of a periodic update mechanism via Celery.
opaauthorizationpolicy-as-codepolicyrealtime
otterize/iamlive
Dec 2023 - Dec 2024
Generate an IAM policy from AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud (GCP) calls using client-side monitoring (CSM) or embedded proxy
Contributions:12 PRs, 21 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year
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