Saar Ettinger
Software Engineering Team Lead at Palo Alto Networks
Center District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolSaar Ettinger is a software engineering team lead with nine years of experience building cloud-native, security-focused systems and leading cross-functional delivery at Palo Alto Networks. He combines hands-on expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, Python, AWS and serverless architectures with a background in DevOps and IoT, having transitioned infrastructure from CloudFormation to Terraform earlier in his career. Saar has driven large features end-to-end—such as a Supply Chain Graph—while contributing to open-source security tooling like Checkov, where he improved IAM checks and hardened the codebase. A former Information Security NCO in the IDF, he brings practical cybersecurity instincts to architecture and code, and he enjoys mentoring teams and expanding his technical stack to solve new problems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Yaffo
Hebrew, English
Github Skills (8)
terraformer10
python10
terraform10
aws-security10
infrastructure-as-code9
security8
cicd8
devops8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bridgecrewio/checkov
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
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:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:279 reviews, 330 commits, 159 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Saar primarily contributed to improving the codebase by fixing bugs, enhancing code robustness, and addressing potential vulnerabilities. They fixed issues related to variable handling, ensuring proper evaluation of references in the codebase. The user also corrected issues with checks related to security, specifically focusing on the IAM roles, and also added some checks to secure the resources. Furthermore, they also updated the library versions, fixing some lint problems.
gcppolicy-as-codecomplianceaws-securityaws
Saarett/supplygoat8
Jun 2022 - Jul 2024
"Vulnerable by Design" supply chain is a learning and training project that demonstrates how common configuration errors can find their way into production cloud environments.
Contributions:35 PRs, 71 pushes, 25 branches in 2 years 2 months
vulnerabledevopssupply-chaintrainingchain
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