Pavel Kerbel is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient distributed systems and high-availability architectures, currently driving platform innovation at Palo Alto Networks. His background includes production and infrastructure engineering roles at Meta and Microsoft and leading data solutions development at ironSource, giving him a strong blend of operational rigor and software craftsmanship. Comfortable across the stack—from front-end beginnings to large-scale backend systems—he focuses on reliability, observability, and scalable service design. Based in Israel with a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Economics from Tel Aviv University, he pairs product-aware engineering with a knack for simplifying complex operational challenges. Notably, his career path reflects a transition from hands-on development to shaping platform-level reliability in security and cloud contexts.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science and Economics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science and Economics at Tel Aviv University
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Pavel Kerbel - Principal Engineer at Palo Alto Networks