Ron Eli is a security analyst at Check Point with eight years of experience blending intelligence analysis and software development to defend organizations and build practical tooling. A Bar-Ilan University honors graduate, he pairs analytical rigor from roles in Unit 8200 and national security with hands-on skills in JavaScript, Node.js, Python, SQL and AWS. Ron contributes to notable open-source projects such as CloudQuery—where he implemented GCP KMS support for secure key management—and improved core Go utilities in go-funk, demonstrating attention to reliability and edge cases. He approaches problems with curiosity and adaptability, turning complex security and cloud governance requirements into reliable implementations. Motivated by meaningful impact, Ron moves fluidly between threat analysis, backend engineering and cloud-native integrations to harden systems and accelerate teams.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Information Science & Internet Technologies, Information Science & Internet Technologies at Bar-Ilan University
The open source high performance ELT framework powered by Apache Arrow
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:4 releases, 475 reviews, 398 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Ron primarily contributed to the development of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) KMS (Key Management Service) functionality within the CloudQuery project. This involved adding support for `kms.keys`, specifically focusing on defining the data structures and methods for interacting with KMS crypto keys and their associated certificates. They implemented transformations and methods for fetching and managing KMS resources. The user's work is crucial for the project as it allows to collect, manage, and secure KMS resources.
A modern Go utility library which provides helpers (map, find, contains, filter, ...)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:3 reviews, 5 commits, 1 PR in 7 days
Contributions summary:Ron primarily focused on improving the `go-funk` library's retrieval functionality. Their contributions included adding the `GetAllowZero` function and modifying the `Get` function to include functional options. They fixed bugs related to retrieving unexported fields and incorporated changes to handle zero values correctly. These changes improved the library's robustness and usability.
golanggofasterutilitymap
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Ron Eli - Security Analyst at Check Point Software