Ran Isenberg
Principal Software Architect at Ran The Builder
Kfar Saba, Center District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolRan Isenberg is a Principal Software Architect and AWS Serverless Hero who designs and delivers secure, production-grade SaaS serverless platforms and internal developer ecosystems for enterprise customers. With 15+ years of hands-on experience across cloud security, platform engineering and serverless architecture, he has led cross-team integrations, defined organizational SDKs and production best practices at CyberArk and Palo Alto Networks. He’s an active open-source contributor to prominent projects like aws-powertools (adding parsing, validation and multi-service event support for Lambda), and runs RanTheBuilder.cloud to share practical, production-ready AWS Serverless guidance. Known for combining deep security sensibility with developer velocity, Ran also consults through ranthebuilder.cloud to help teams adopt secure, scalable serverless patterns.
6 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Software Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the NegevMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at The Open University of Israel
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (14)
aws-lambda10
serverless10
pydantic10
aws10
api-gateway10
python10
amazon-sqs9
dynamodb9
kin9
feature-flags9
amazon-kinesis9
amazon-dynamodb9
aws-sqs-fifo9
testing8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
aws-powertools/powertools-lambda-python
Sep 2020 - Oct 2022
A developer toolkit to implement Serverless best practices and increase developer velocity.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:116 reviews, 21 commits, 43 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ran contributed significantly to the serverless best practices toolkit by implementing advanced parsing and validation functionalities. They focused on adding support for various AWS services like SQS, DynamoDB, Kinesis, API Gateway, and Lambda Function URLs, alongside integrating feature flags via AppConfig. These contributions involved defining schemas, parsing event payloads, and ensuring proper data handling within the AWS Lambda environment. They also added tests for the new functionality.
distributedidempotencypythoncustom-metricslambda-functions
ran-isenberg/cookiecutter-serverless-python
May 2023 - Jan 2025
Cookiecutter template for new Serverless services - CDK deployment code, pipeline and handler are covered with best practices built in.
Contributions:13 releases, 48 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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