Ori Zerah is a software engineer with seven years of experience building secure, production-grade systems across cybersecurity startups and defense-grade projects. After four years in Unit 8200, he contributed to Argon Security and Aqua Security, focusing on backend engineering and cloud-native security tooling before joining Echo. Ori is an active open-source contributor to notable projects like aquasecurity/kube-hunter, where he added etcd-specific checks to expose remote read/write access and version disclosure risks. He combines hands-on Python and backend skills with a security-first mindset that surfaces subtle infrastructure vulnerabilities. Based in Israel, he’s driven by continuous learning and enjoys tackling low-level cloud and distributed-system challenges that others often overlook.
Hunt for security weaknesses in Kubernetes clusters
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Contributions:189 commits, 11 PRs, 101 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Ori's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the security aspects of the Kubernetes cluster by adding checks and tests related to the etcd database. They implemented checks for remote access to etcd, including read and write access, and version disclosure. Their work involved writing Python code, utilizing the requests library, and integrating with the core components of the kube-hunter project to identify potential vulnerabilities in Kubernetes deployments.
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Contributions:6 PRs, 14 pushes, 4 branches in 1 day
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