Shay Rybak
Production Engineering Team Lead at Similarweb
Hod HaSharon, Center District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolShay Rybak is a production engineering leader with 8 years of experience building and operating cloud-native, security-focused infrastructure. As a Team Lead for WAF development and now Production Engineering Team Lead, he has guided multi-discipline teams to deliver scalable, high-availability WAF products and platform services using Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and modern CI/CD practices. He brings hands-on expertise from platform architecture to DevOps automation—having led migrations from legacy systems and toolchains (e.g., Puppet to Ansible) while designing monitoring, logging, and message-driven systems at scale. Known for blending technical rigor with mentorship, Shay drives cross-functional collaboration and agile delivery across product, QA, and operations. Based in Israel and grounded in dual science/engineering degrees from Tel Aviv University, he combines analytical depth with practical execution in security-critical environments.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Tel Aviv University
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (104)
controller10
python10
automation10
embedded10
cpp10
ansible-role10
ssh10
docker-build10
sql10
ai10
ansible10
rust10
database10
analytics10
devops10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
stackpath/virtual-kubelet-stackpath
May 2023 - Oct 2023
Stackpath Virtual Kubelet provider
Contributions:6 releases, 24 reviews, 11 PRs in 5 months
stackpathvirtual-kubeletvirtual-kubelet-provider
stackpath/ansible
Apr 2019 - Sep 2019
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy. Avoid writing scripts or custom code to deploy and update your applications — automate in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
pythonit-automationdevopsansibleplain-english
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