Shlomi Livne
Site Reliability Engineering Manager at Google
Herzliya, Tel Aviv District, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarShlomi Livne is a Site Reliability Engineering Manager at Google with over 20 years of server-side software experience and more than 15 years leading R&D organizations through productization in both startups and large enterprises. He has a proven track record building carrier-grade, large-scale systems and boosting team productivity through practices like virtualization, automated testing, code coverage, and CI integration. As former VP of R&D at ScyllaDB and senior engineering leader at Oracle Communications and Convergin, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic leadership across distributed systems and cloud environments. Active in open source QA and DevOps work—contributing test infrastructure to the high-performance Seastar framework and cloud testing tools for the OSv project—he brings practical expertise in improving reliability and test automation. A people-oriented manager, he excels at building cross-cultural relationships with investors, customers and partners to turn complex technical challenges into business outcomes. Notably, his contributions often focus on the often-overlooked plumbing that prevents failures: robust test harnesses, timeout controls and CI-friendly reporting.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (33)
ec10
c-language10
python10
testing10
bash10
automation10
amazon-ec210
seastar10
automation-testing10
automations10
cprogramming-language10
test-automation10
async9
asynchronous9
networking9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
scylladb/seastar
Dec 2014 - Aug 2015
High performance server-side application framework
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:17 commits, 28 comments, 5 issues in 8 months
Contributions summary:Shlomi primarily focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure within the `seastar` repository. Their contributions included adding a timeout mechanism to prevent runaway tests, improving test reporting by generating Boost XML files for Jenkins integration, and correcting bugs in the test execution. They also updated the test suite to ensure each test case contained at least one assertion. Moreover, the user updated the test script to use a temporary file for test stdout and fixed bug of not handling stderr pipe in test.py.
seastarc-plus-plusdpdkframeworkperformance
cloudius-systems/osv
Jul 2014 - Nov 2014
OSv, a new operating system for the cloud.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & System Architect
DevOps Engineer & System ArchitectContributions:14 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Shlomi's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the OSv operating system's infrastructure and testing capabilities. They implemented a RESTful API for file system statistics, integrated a tester script for compiling and running tests, and created an EC2 testing script for automated testing in the cloud. They also made improvements to the build process, enabling the use of environment variables, and enhanced networking support for the XEN environment.
operating-systemoperatinglinuxosv
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