Yehuda Chikvashvili
Israel
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Top SchoolYehuda Chikvashvili is a security-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in cloud and Kubernetes security. He has driven open-source improvements at Aqua Security, contributing security enhancements and nuanced CVE detection logic to the widely used kube-hunter project. Prior roles at Check Point included DevOps and public cloud engineering, giving him practical expertise across cloud operations and secure deployment patterns. Yehuda spends his free time exploring cloud technologies and translating that curiosity into practical tooling and refactors that reduce false positives and handle patched versions more accurately. Based in Israel, he blends hands-on research with community-minded open-source contributions that improve vulnerability assessment fidelity.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at The College of Management Academic Studies
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Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
python10
it-security10
security10
vulnerability-assessment10
kubernetes-pods10
testing9
dockers7
docker7
hash6
checksum6
encryption6
android6
autocomplete6
crc6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aquasecurity/kube-hunter
Mar 2018 - Apr 2020
Hunt for security weaknesses in Kubernetes clusters
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:2 releases, 17 commits, 75 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Yehuda primarily contributed to the security aspects of the Kubernetes cluster hunting tool. They implemented features to ignore patched Kubernetes versions and refactored the code to address configuration issues. The user also modified and refined CVE hunter descriptions, demonstrating a focus on improving the accuracy of vulnerability assessments. The modifications included adding new flags for the tool.
huntvulnerabilitiessecurityclusterskubernetes-clusters
iyehuda/torch
Feb 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:66 commits, 86 pushes, 30 branches in 3 months
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