Sasha Sokolovich
Principal Security Architect at Palo Alto Networks
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolSasha Sokolovich is a Principal Security Architect at Palo Alto Networks with four years of focused experience in security engineering and operations across startups and enterprise teams. He advanced from SecOps and security engineering roles into architecture, bringing hands-on expertise in automation, incident response, and secure integration design. Sasha contributes to the prominent Cortex XSOAR (demisto/content) repository, improving back-end integrations, CTF scripts and test coverage—showing a blend of developer discipline and security ops insight. Based in Israel, he combines practical SecOps experience from LivePerson and consulting work with strategic architecture at a market-leading vendor. Colleagues rely on him to translate messy operational problems into automated, testable solutions that scale across large SOC environments. He pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with active open-source involvement to keep security tooling both effective and maintainable.
5 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Holon Institute of Technology
Github Skills (6)
xs10
security-automation10
python10
scripting10
testing8
json7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
demisto/content
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
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:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:869 reviews, 65 commits, 247 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Sasha primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality of the `demisto/content` repository, which is related to security orchestration and automation. Their work involved bug fixes, especially around the `ZipStringsArrays` and `CortexXDRIdentityInformationWidget` scripts. Additionally, the user made several changes to the CTF scripts and layouts, indicating involvement in the development of security-related challenges and improvements to existing integrations. They also actively updated various documentation and release notes, fixing validations and adding more tests.
securityxsoar-contentactive-repository
moshe-eichler/content
Sep 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:95 commits in 11 months
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