Snir Sheriber
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolSnir Sheriber is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and hardening cloud-native runtimes and CI/CD tooling from Tel Aviv. At Red Hat he progressed from intern to senior engineer, contributing deep runtime and system-architecture fixes to the widely used Kata Containers project—improving shim behavior, configurability, logging, and test reliability across diverse environments. He combines backend systems work with DevOps and automation expertise, repeatedly tackling dependency, cross-OS compatibility, and test-infrastructure challenges to keep complex distributed tooling robust. Comfortable both debugging low-level runtime issues and designing CI pipelines, he brings a pragmatic focus on observability and reproducible test environments that reduces flakes and accelerates delivery.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Hebrew, English
Github Skills (22)
kubernetes10
docker10
qemu10
testing10
bash10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
occi10
automation10
containerd10
go10
virtualization10
kubernetes-pods10
kata-containers10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kata-containers/kata-containers
Aug 2020 - Oct 2022
Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs. https://katacontainers.io/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:4 releases, 146 reviews, 98 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Snir primarily contributed to the Kata Containers project by addressing bugs, improving runtime behavior, and enhancing the system's configurability and performance. Their work includes fixing issues related to container deletion and post-stop hook failures within the shimv2 component. Furthermore, the user implemented features to make the dialing timeout configurable and added logging to improve debugging capabilities. These contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of the Kata Containers runtime and its underlying architecture.
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kata-containers/tests
Apr 2021 - Jun 2022
Kata Containers tests, CI, and metrics
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:4 releases, 131 reviews, 50 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Snir primarily focused on improving the CI/CD pipeline and the testing infrastructure for the Kata Containers project. Their contributions include fixing dependency resolution issues, adapting scripts for different operating systems, adding backoff sleep mechanisms to mitigate errors, and removing a deprecated log parser. Furthermore, the user implemented changes related to the setup and configuration of the testing environment, specifically for Kubernetes integration and related tools like Podman and runc. These changes aimed to ensure the reliability and compatibility of the testing framework across various environments.
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