Renana Even-chen
AI And Innovation Manager
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolRenana Even-chen is an experienced engineering leader and hands-on backend expert with six years focused on cloud-native, high-performance systems and a longer track record in low-latency trading and embedded software. Currently AI and Innovation Manager at Akeyless Security, she builds agentic AI features and multi-cloud, highly available security integrations while still authoring core Go services and testing critical third-party integrations like Akeyless support for the popular External Secrets operator. She has repeatedly grown and led backend teams from first hires to production delivery, owning end-to-end SDLCs and mentoring engineers across product, infra and security boundaries. Comfortable across Go, C++, Kubernetes and multi-cloud stacks, she blends pragmatic engineering with product-driven architectural decisions and a knack for shipping tight-schedule, mission-critical systems. An observant builder, she pairs deep systems-level experience (from microsecond trading engines to AI assistants) with an appetite for operational excellence and measurable security outcomes.
5 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.sc, Computer science, B.sc, Computer science at Bar-Ilan University
Github Skills (8)
apim10
kubernetes10
user-authentication10
authentication10
go10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
testing9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
external-secrets/external-secrets
Nov 2021 - Sep 2022
External Secrets Operator reads information from a third-party service like AWS Secrets Manager and automatically injects the values as Kubernetes Secrets.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 16 commits, 7 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Renana primarily contributed to the implementation and testing of Akeyless integration, focusing on allowing the external secrets operator to read secrets from Akeyless. This involved writing code to interact with Akeyless APIs, including authentication and secret retrieval. The user also added end-to-end (e2e) tests to validate the integration and ensure proper functionality. The changes made indicate a strong understanding of Go programming and the Akeyless service.
external-secretspartyexternal-secrets-operatorsecret-managementsecrets-manager
akeylesslabs/akeyless-go-cloud-id
Nov 2020 - Dec 2023
Retrieves cloud identity
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 2 PRs in 3 years 1 month
gcpcloud-identitycloudidentityazure
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