Rabea Zreik
Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolRabea Zreik is a software engineer based in the Tel-Aviv District with three years of hands-on experience building secure backend systems. Currently at Palo Alto Networks after a successful internship there, Rabea focuses on security-oriented engineering and cloud misconfiguration prevention. He has contributed to the well-known open-source Checkov project, adding Python CDK SAST policies, integration tests, and fixes that harden infrastructure-as-code scanning. Comfortable working at the intersection of backend development and security, he brings practical experience shipping test-covered policies that catch secrets and misconfigurations early in the build pipeline. A Tel Aviv University computer science student, Rabea pairs academic foundations with real-world impact on widely used security tooling.
4 years of coding experience
Computer Science, Computer Science at Tel Aviv University
Github Skills (9)
it-security10
infrastructure-as-code10
static-analysis10
aws-cdk10
python10
security10
aws9
terraformer8
terraform8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bridgecrewio/checkov
Oct 2023 - Sep 2025
Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:40 reviews, 85 PRs, 124 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Rabea primarily contributed to the development of new Python CDK policies for Checkov, focusing on Static Application Security Testing (SAST). They added numerous security policies, including integration tests, and made various code fixes. Additionally, they addressed secret-related issues and performed code improvements within the project. The contributions involved core functionality related to cloud misconfiguration prevention.
checkovcontainer-imageinfrastructure-as-codevulnerabilitiesterraform
RabeaZr/test-new-secrets
May 2025 - May 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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