Zeev Pekar
Senior DevOps And Automation Engineer
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolZeev Pekar is a Senior DevOps and Automation Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building resilient, cost-efficient infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for R&D and production environments. He specializes in open-source stacks, containerized deployments, and automation (Ansible, GitLab/Jenkins, Docker), having architected high-availability, offline-capable systems that drastically reduced licensing and operational costs. At Mobileye and previously Motorola Solutions and Toldot he delivered scalable, monitored platforms combining Java, Nginx/Angular, databases, ELK, Prometheus/Grafana and OCR processing. A pragmatic systems thinker and creative problem-solver, Zeev contributes to open-source—enhancing the GTK front-end of the notable gImageReader project, including Hebrew script support and cross-compilation fixes—demonstrating attention to internationalization and tooling robustness. He pairs deep operational expertise with strong communication and a persistent “automate everything” mindset, thriving on complex migrations and offline/air-gapped deployments.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computing Science, Computing Science at Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyComputing Science, Computing Science at Technical University of Munich
English, Hebrew, German, Russian, Ukrainian
Github Skills (9)
ocr10
gtk10
c-language10
ocra10
cprogramming-language10
crossbuild9
cross-compiling9
file-handling8
qt4
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
manisandro/gImageReader
Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
A Gtk/Qt front-end to tesseract-ocr.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 5 commits, 5 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Zeev primarily contributed to the GTK front-end of the `gimagereader` project, adding features for text output highlighting, opening files in the text editor, and syntax highlighting. They also restored cross-compilation functionality for Windows and made adjustments for file path handling. Furthermore, the user introduced support for additional languages, including Hebrew Rashi and Hebrew (Toranit) scripts.
scannerc-plus-plusocrqt5gtk
AvtechScientific/AS-website
Jul 2016 - Mar 2025
Contributions:13 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 9 months
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