Yaakov Praisler
Senior Staff Engineer Software at Palo Alto Networks
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolYaakov Praisler is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Israel with six years of hands-on experience building and maintaining backend systems at Palo Alto Networks. He progressed rapidly from Software Developer to Staff and now Senior Staff Engineer, demonstrating strong technical growth within a leading cybersecurity company. Yaakov contributes to high-impact open-source security automation projects like Cortex XSOAR, focusing on integrations, Python backend work, and test improvements that help operationalize threat response. He combines practical engineering with a security-first mindset, regularly improving integration code and documentation to make complex systems more reliable and automatable. Quietly driven, he pairs steady product delivery with an appetite for contributing upstream to widely used security tooling.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Mefathim Tech Excellence - מפתחים מצוינות בהייטק
Hebrew, English
Github Skills (10)
xs10
apim10
intergration10
integrate10
api10
python10
integrations10
testing8
yaml7
bash4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
demisto/content
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Demisto is now Cortex XSOAR. Automate and orchestrate your Security Operations with Cortex XSOAR's ever-growing Content Repository. Pull Requests are always welcome and highly appreciated!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:702 reviews, 209 commits, 557 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Yaakov primarily contributed to the codebase by updating and enhancing functionality related to the Cortex XSOAR content repository. Their commits focused on modifying and updating integration code, including Python scripts, and related documentation, particularly within the CortexXDRIR integration. These changes included adding and improving features and tests. These contributions suggest a developer focused on creating and maintaining backend code and integrations.
containerscortexsecurity-toolsorchestrationsecurity-operations
UlisseDallara/content
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
Demisto is now Cortex XSOAR. Automate and orchestrate your Security Operations with Cortex XSOAR's ever-growing Content Repository. Pull Requests are always welcome and highly appreciated!
Contributions:8 pushes in 1 day
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