Reem Shamasnah is a pragmatic software engineer with four years of hands-on experience building scalable full-stack and cloud-native applications, from API design to production monitoring. She has contributed to a large-scale cloud security platform at Palo Alto Networks and to the widely used open-source project Checkov, adding Terraform checks for AWS State Machines and improving build-time vulnerability scanning. Reem builds resilient backends in Node.js and Python and creates responsive frontends with React and Next.js, while applying AWS Lambda, Step Functions and CI/CD for reliable deployments. She led development of a cloud POS system for small businesses, driving architecture and Agile delivery to turn product needs into working systems. A quick learner and collaborative teammate, she combines security-minded DevOps work with product-focused engineering and maintains a portfolio and active open-source contributions. Located in Israel, she’s open to Backend or Full-Stack roles where she can own features end-to-end and optimize for performance and observability.
4 years of coding experience
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Manara
Full Stack Bootcamp, Full Stack Bootcamp at Elevation
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Birzeit University
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:
DevOps Engineer & Security Engineer
Contributions:14 reviews, 11 commits, 20 PRs in 9 days
Contributions summary:Reem contributed to infrastructure as code by adding and modifying checks for AWS State Machines within Terraform configurations, focusing on logging, X-Ray tracing, and provider blocks. They also addressed build-time security with updates for static code analysis, vulnerability scanning, and supporting features like `--support` and `--image` flags. Furthermore, the user updated Checkov versions, addressed dependency issues and the CLI print functionality, and normalized code in the dependency tree for software composition analysis (SCA).
Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.
Contributions:78 pushes, 27 branches in 1 year
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