Yarden Shoham
DevOps Tech Lead at Cognyte
Kadima - Zoran, Center District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolYarden Shoham is a DevOps Tech Lead with nine years of hands-on experience building reliable CI/CD and backend systems, currently leading DevOps at Cognyte. He combines strong software development skills and rapid self-learning with excellent people skills, mentoring teams while driving operational excellence. An active open-source contributor, he has improved widely used projects such as Helm and Gitea—fixing bugs, hardening APIs, and enhancing UX and time zone handling. Comfortable across backend and front-end work, he favors incremental, well-tested changes (many small PRs over one big PR) and has a knack for simplifying code and removing unnecessary complexity. Holding a Computer Engineering BS and pursuing an MS in Computer Science, he blends solid academic grounding with practical, security-minded engineering.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Reichman University (IDC Herzliya)Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, 97, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, 97 at Ruppin Academic Center
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (38)
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Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
go-gitea/gitea
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:906 reviews, 45 commits, 319 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Yarden Shoham contributed to the Gitea project by addressing issues related to date formatting and time zone handling in the repository activity page. They also worked on enhancing the user experience by localizing timestamps and adding a color preview feature to markdown. Additionally, Yarden Shoham implemented changes to improve code quality and maintainability, such as using the project's Go version and adding tests for new features. Furthermore, they focused on security by fixing API endpoints related to users.
golangdevopsgiteahostedcup
helm/helm
Aug 2020 - Feb 2025
The Kubernetes Package Manager
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 6 PRs, 25 comments in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Yarden primarily contributed to the Helm project's backend functionality by addressing bugs and improving the codebase. Their work included fixing typos, removing unnecessary checks, and implementing error handling for post-renderer processes. They also worked on ensuring the correct behavior of the Helm CLI flags by preventing multiple post-renderer specifications.
chartscharthelmpackage-managerkubernetes
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