Uri Loya
Principal Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Israel
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Top SchoolUri Loya is a Principal Software Engineer based in Israel with 8 years of experience designing and shipping scalable, security-focused systems across startups and enterprise teams. He has a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Ben-Gurion University and a strong backend pedigree in Go, Python, and Java, building microservices, secure protocols, and high-scale services using Kafka, Redis, DynamoDB, RDS, and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure). At Rapid7 he led cross-team integrations and helped bring AI-driven CDR capabilities into production using RAG, LangChain and AWS Bedrock to accelerate threat detection. As an architect at IXDen he owned end-to-end product development, including a TLS 1.3-like protocol for secure agent-server communication, demonstrating deep operational ownership and security-first design. Known for turning proofs-of-concept into production features under tight deadlines, he blends hands-on coding with technical leadership and pragmatic system design.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University of the NegevHigh School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Eynot Yarden
English, Hebrew, Danish
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Github Skills (43)
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wavelet10
self-organizing-map10
statistical-learning9
mathematica9
dimensionality-reduction9
classification9
manifold9
naive-bayes9
regression9
orange9
clustering9
nlp8
computer-vision8
interpolation8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
uriloya/Ransomware
Aug 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
uriloya/test1
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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