Summary
Yaakov K is a Cloud Engineer based in Tel Aviv with 22 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, automation and cloud-native infrastructure. He has recent production experience at Lendbuzz and Red Hat, and a strong open-source footprint contributing to high-profile projects like OpenShift, StackRox and Kubernetes SIGs, focusing on CI/CD, multi-architecture builds, and build/test infrastructure maintenance. Yaakov’s work spans low-level build fixes (resolving Go linker and vendor issues) to higher-level release automation and console UI improvements, showing versatility across build systems, operators and front-end touches. He’s particularly skilled at modernizing pipelines and cross-architecture support—evident from contributions enabling arm64/ppc64le compatibility and multi-arch releases. Beyond engineering, he has academic experience teaching algorithmic number theory, reflecting a capacity for explaining complex concepts and mentoring technical teams.
22 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer