Osher Vaknin
CTO Office at Oligo Security
South District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolOsher Vaknin is a software leader with five years of professional experience now supporting strategy and execution from the CTO Office at Oligo Security. He progressed from embedded and intelligence-focused engineering into cloud-native backend roles, including R&D Team Lead at Epsagon where he bridged product and platform delivery. Osher contributes to notable open-source observability work in the OpenTelemetry JavaScript contrib project, adding MongoDB instrumentation and expanding Redis and GraphQL support—showing a practical focus on making systems more measurable. His background in embedded systems and military intelligence gives him a disciplined approach to reliability and security that complements his cloud and observability expertise. Based in southern Israel, he pairs a BSc-level foundation in mathematics and physics with hands-on coding, code review, and cross-team technical leadership. Colleagues value his blend of low-level systems intuition and pragmatic shipping of developer-facing tooling.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc Mathematics and Physics, Bachelor of Science - BSc Mathematics and Physics at The Open University of Israel
Github Skills (12)
opentelemetry10
nodejs10
javascript10
mongodb10
mongodb-database10
redis9
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
wordpress-graphql7
wpgraphql7
graphql7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js-contrib
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
OpenTelemetry instrumentation for JavaScript modules
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:58 reviews, 8 commits, 12 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Osher primarily contributed to the OpenTelemetry instrumentation for JavaScript modules, specifically focusing on MongoDB. Their work included implementing instrumentation for MongoDB v4, addressing code reviews, and fixing compilation issues. They also added GraphQL types and migrated examples, demonstrating expertise in extending observability for various technologies. Further contributions included adding support for new versions of Redis.
instrumentationjavascript-modulesjavascriptobservabilityotel
cisco-open/cisco-otel-distribution-specifications
Feb 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:10 reviews, 67 commits, 2 pushes in 2 months
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