Salim Maya
Principal Engineer at Wiz
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSalim Maya is a Principal Engineer and engineering leader with nearly two decades of experience building developer-first security and automation tooling across cloud and infrastructure platforms. He has led high-impact projects at Lacework and Mondoo—authoring a widely adopted Lacework Terraform provider and building a CLI and automated workflows that cut onboarding from hours to minutes. At Chef he drove the migration to microservices in Go, scaled telemetry pipelines for 200k+ nodes, and contributed significant enhancements to the influential Test Kitchen project. Salim combines deep systems thinking from his early Sun Microsystems days with pragmatic UX-focused engineering, mentoring teams on secure-by-default patterns and extensible architectures. Now based in California and active in open source, he blends hands-on delivery with customer-facing technical leadership, often serving as the trusted post-sale technical contact for Fortune 500 deployments. Outside work he’s an avid outdoorsman and tinkerer, a detail that mirrors his approach to solving hard infrastructure problems through thoughtful automation.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero Inglés programación sitemas operativos, Ingeniero Inglés programación sitemas operativos at Universidad Tecnológica de México
French, English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (11)
ruby10
powershell10
chef-client10
test-kitchen10
automation10
chef-solo10
automations10
devops10
winrm10
testing10
rubygems9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
test-kitchen/test-kitchen
Jul 2014 - Sep 2014
Test Kitchen is an integration tool for developing and testing infrastructure code and software on isolated target platforms
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:16 commits, 17 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Salim primarily focused on enhancing the integration and testing capabilities of the `test-kitchen/test-kitchen` repository. Their work involved the creation of a WinRM module and improving the functionality of the Chef omnibus installation process, particularly for Windows guests. Furthermore, the user implemented parallel file transfers, optimized build processes, and addressed various integration test issues, demonstrating a strong focus on automation and infrastructure management.
infrastructure-testingruby-gemtest-kitchendevelopingkitchen
lacework/terraform-provisioning
Mar 2020 - Oct 2022
Lacework provisioning with Terraform
Contributions:5 releases, 62 reviews, 112 commits in 2 years 7 months
terraform-providerprovisioninglaceworkterraform
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