Yaniv Shasha is a Principal Program Manager based in Redmond with eight years of experience focused on cloud security and customer experience engineering for C+AI platforms. He blends program management discipline with hands-on cloud and security engineering, contributing PowerShell automation and Azure security configurations to the high-profile Microsoft Defender for Cloud community repository. Yaniv specializes in DDoS protection, VM security, and scalable monitoring deployments, translating complex security requirements into operational recommendations and automated runbooks. Comfortable at the intersection of engineering and customer-facing programs, he drives reliability and security improvements while keeping delivery timelines and stakeholder needs aligned. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic automation that closes security gaps across subscriptions and virtual machine scale sets—work that often hides deep Azure expertise behind simple, repeatable scripts.
Welcome to the Microsoft Defender for Cloud community repository
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer & Security Engineer
Contributions:34 commits, 2 PRs, 30 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Yaniv's commits primarily focus on security-related PowerShell scripts and configurations within the Microsoft Defender for Cloud repository. They demonstrate expertise in Azure security features, including DDoS protection, virtual machine security, and monitoring agent installation on virtual machine scale sets. The user also contributes to tasks like subscription recommendations and storage transaction metrics, suggesting a focus on cloud infrastructure management, security implementation and automation using PowerShell.
Contributions:589 commits, 4 PRs, 622 pushes in 3 years 5 months
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