Yossi Mesika
Senior Software Engineer at solo.io
Haifa, Haifa District, Israel
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Top SchoolYossi Mesika is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of focused experience and a two-decade-long technical career spanning IBM, Dell, and Solo.io, where he now contributes to the Istio open-source service mesh. He is a versatile full-stack developer comfortable across cloud-native systems, J2EE, web, and iOS, with fluent hands-on experience in Java, Go, JavaScript and Swift. At Solo.io and in upstream Istio work he has driven backend and DevOps improvements—ranging from Envoy-related features and istioctl enhancements to Kubernetes deployment tuning—demonstrating deep operational and control-plane know-how. His background includes large-scale cloud foundation work at IBM and senior architecture contributions at Dell, pairing pragmatic engineering with platform-level thinking. Holding a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Technion and an MBA from The Open University of Israel, he blends technical depth with business perspective. Colleagues describe him as a curious, quick adopter of new technologies who prefers rolling up his sleeves to deliver durable, production-grade solutions.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computer Engineering, B.Sc., Computer Engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyMBA, Businesses Management, MBA, Businesses Management at The Open University of Israel
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (22)
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
microservices-application10
go10
proxies10
kubernetes-pods10
microservices10
envoyproxy9
env9
ioctl9
io9
devops9
convoy9
istio9
cicd8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
istio/istio
May 2018 - Jan 2023
Connect, secure, control, and observe services.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:167 reviews, 182 commits, 338 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Yossi contributed significantly to the Istio project by implementing features and addressing various issues related to the Envoy proxy and control plane. Their contributions included adding resource requests for sidecars, modifying the Kubernetes deployment configuration, and improving the functionality of the `istioctl` tool. Furthermore, the user worked on integrating changes to test infrastructure. These contributions suggest a strong focus on core service mesh functionality and operational aspects.
circuit-breakerenforce-policiesistioapi-managementmicroservice
ymesika/api
Oct 2018 - Jan 2024
API, config and standard vocabulary definitions for the Istio project
Contributions:6 pushes, 17 branches in 5 years 4 months
apiistiokubernetesconfigdefinitions
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