Yochai Gilad is a security-focused engineering leader with over 6 years of experience at Microsoft and a long software career extending back to military and commercial roles. Currently serving as Security SME & Org CISO for Kusto and leading the Security & SDKs team for Azure Data Explorer, he blends hands-on development, SDK design, and enterprise security stewardship. His background includes principal development and team leadership roles, and earlier system engineering and architecture experience in the IAF鈥檚 Mamram unit, giving him deep operational and secure-systems perspective. Yochai pairs a practical software technician foundation with a BA in Philosophy, which informs his structured,lyrical approach to problem solving and risk reasoning. He is known for translating complex security and compliance requirements into developer-friendly SDKs and platform controls that scale across a global cloud service.
6 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Software Technician Software, Software Technician Software at ORT Colleges
Bachelor of Arts - BA Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA Philosophy at The Open University of Israel
WinLocker replaces the Windows built in desktop locking behavior (built into the screen saver functionality), in cases where this behavior is disabled due to domain policies
Contributions:3 releases, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 month
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