Tomer Levi
Sr. Principal Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolTomer Levi is a Sr. Principal Engineer based in Israel with over a decade of experience building cloud-native, data and security-focused platforms across startups and enterprise teams. He has led R&D and architecture at Sedric.ai—shaping AI-driven compliance monitoring—and now drives engineering at Palo Alto Networks, blending product leadership with deep technical execution. Tomer’s background spans data engineering, serverless architectures, and AI/ML platforms from Fundbox and Intel to large-scale backend systems at NICE, giving him a rare mix of data, security and infrastructure expertise. An active contributor to the popular Checkov project, he’s implemented IaC security checks for Azure Databricks and streamlined CI/CD workflows across major pipelines, reflecting strong practical knowledge of cloud security and automation. He’s known for translating regulatory and compliance requirements into auditable, production-ready systems and for smoothing the path from research prototypes to scalable operations. Beyond titles, Tomer combines hands-on coding with strategic architecture, often surfacing pragmatic fixes in open-source tooling that prevent real-world misconfigurations.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Software, BSc Software at SCE College Of Engineering
Github Skills (16)
infrastructure-as-code10
terraformer10
azure10
microsoft-azure10
aws10
devops10
ci-cd-pipeline10
terraform10
arm-templates10
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
static-analysis7
python5
aws-cloudformation5
kubernetes4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bridgecrewio/checkov
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:16 reviews, 19 PRs, 37 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Tomer primarily focused on implementing and maintaining infrastructure-as-code solutions and streamlining CI/CD processes within the Checkov repository. The contributions include the creation of new security checks for Azure Databricks using ARM templates and Terraform, as well as fixing issues with the rendering of Terraform configurations that involve for_each and count attributes. Furthermore, the user disabled image referencer checks for various CI/CD workflows such as Github Actions, Gitlab CI, Azure Pipelines, CircleCI and Bitbucket pipelines. The user's work demonstrates a strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, security best practices, and automation using IaC tools.
gcppolicy-as-codecomplianceaws-securityaws
MrTomerLevi/jenkins-pipeline-aws-shared-lib
Feb 2019 - Jun 2020
Jenkins pipeline library for AWS
Contributions:1 release, 17 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 4 months
jenkinspipeline-libraryjenkins-pipeline-libraryjenkins-pluginpipeline
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