Shai Yaakovi
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Palo Alto Networks
Israel
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Shai Yaakovi is a Senior Software Engineering Manager at Palo Alto Networks with eight years of engineering and leadership experience driving secure, production-grade software. He progressed from hands-on engineering at Demisto (now Cortex XSOAR) to team lead and managerial roles, blending backend and DevOps expertise with people management. His open-source contributions to the widely used demisto/content repository show a pragmatic focus on debugging, refactoring, test improvement, and build/release automation. Based in Israel and educated in Computer Engineering at Technion, he brings a systems-oriented mindset shaped by both industry and prior IDF software leadership. Colleagues describe him as a delivery-focused manager who still dives into code when it matters, especially around integrations and CI/CD artifacts. He pairs an operational attention to detail with experience scaling teams and processes at a major cybersecurity vendor.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Github Skills (6)
buildr10
python10
debug9
debugging9
bash8
git8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
demisto/content
Aug 2017 - Oct 2022
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:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:2884 reviews, 3011 commits, 2089 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Shai primarily focused on debugging, refactoring, and improving code quality within the McAfeeNSM integration, as evidenced by repeated use of debug prints. They also made changes to the Tests module, likely to improve the code's efficiency. Furthermore, the user contributed to the development of build and release processes, working on code related to the content creator, specifically to generate artifact files.
containerscortexsecurity-toolsorchestrationsecurity-operations
yaakovi/issueMoverSrc
Nov 2017 - Mar 2020
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 4 months
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