Shimi Gersner
Principal Engineer at Island
Israel
Summary
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RockstarShimi Gersner is a Principal Engineer based in Israel with nine years of professional software and security experience, currently contributing to high-performance networking at Island. Previously a principal software engineer at Microsoft, he was a core contributor to Azure Firewall Premium and a founding member of the Azure Networking Security Research team, driving integrations with Microsoft Defender for Cloud and backbone network protections. His background spans founding and technical leadership roles at startups (including Co-Founder & CTO of Flexagrid and Principal Technical Leader at Claroty) and hands-on security research, reflecting a blend of entrepreneurial grit and deep systems security expertise. Comfortable as an individual contributor in complex, distributed environments, he has repeatedly moved security research into production-grade network defenses. A former IDF researcher and team leader, Shimi brings disciplined, mission-oriented engineering coupled with a track record of building critical infrastructure and securing large-scale networks.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (27)
bicep10
microsoft10
swagger10
microsoft-azure10
api10
rest10
arm-templates10
arm10
powershell10
rest-api10
azure10
openapi10
risk-assessment6
compliance3
haproxy3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/haproxy
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
HAProxy Load Balancer's development branch (mirror of git.haproxy.org)
Contributions:15 pushes, 6 branches in 25 days
haproxyproxyload-balancerbalancer
gersner/haproxy
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
HAProxy Load Balancer's development branch (mirror of git.haproxy.org)
Contributions:5 pushes, 4 branches in 13 days
haproxyproxyload-balancerbalancer
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