Shachaf Goldstein is a product-focused technologist with 10 years’ experience architecting cloud and Windows-first infrastructure across defense, enterprise, and cloud providers. He has progressed from hands-on Windows server and DRP engineering to leading cloud architecture teams and now product management, blending deep technical fluency with strategic product delivery. At Microsoft and Elbit he shaped cloud solutions at scale, and his open-source contributions to the high-profile Ansible project improved Windows module reliability—evidence of his low-level troubleshooting and automation chops. Based in Israel, he thrives on technical, architectural, and educational challenges and is skilled at translating complex operational requirements into dependable, automatable systems. Notably, his background spans both secure government environments and commercial cloud platforms, giving him a pragmatic perspective on reliability and compliance.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Aleh Lod high school for science and arts
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at The Open University of Israel
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:39 commits, 94 PRs, 527 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Shachaf primarily contributed to the Ansible project by implementing and fixing Windows module functionality. They focused on improving the Windows modules, including win_iis, win_pagefile, and win_domain modules. Their work involved debugging, refactoring, and enhancing these modules to improve their functionality, as well as incorporating changes for proper functionality in Windows. This includes implementing fixes for specific issues and improving the overall reliability of the Ansible automation platform for Windows environments.
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