Reut Shalem is a software engineering team lead at Palo Alto Networks with seven years of experience building secure, reliable backend systems. Rising from student engineer to staff engineer and now team lead since 2020, she combines hands-on coding with people leadership to deliver production-grade security features. Her open-source contributions to the well-known Cortex XSOAR (demisto/content) repo reflect a pragmatic focus on robustness—improving Whois functionality and tightening error handling to reduce operational friction. Based in the Tel-Aviv District, she brings a strong academic foundation from Ben-Gurion University in Computer Science and a knack for turning subtle bug fixes into measurable reliability gains.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Demisto is now Cortex XSOAR. Automate and orchestrate your Security Operations with Cortex XSOAR's ever-growing Content Repository. Pull Requests are always welcome and highly appreciated!
Role in this project:
Backend & Security Engineer
Contributions:602 reviews, 1138 commits, 416 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Reut appears to be focused on improving the "Whois" functionality, fixing bugs, and enhancing the reliability of the code. They made several improvements to the Whois command, including updating existing domains instead of creating new ones, and improved error handling. Additionally, they were involved in fixing a bug in the script.
Contributions:2 releases, 1 branch, 2 tags in 20 days
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Reut Shalem - Software Engineer Team Lead at Palo Alto Networks