Zohar Galor
Principal Software Engineer And Tech Lead at Red Hat
Israel
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Top SchoolZohar Galor is a Principal Software Engineer and tech lead based in Israel with over 25 years of hands-on software experience and nine years focused on cloud-native SaaS and OpenShift cluster management at Red Hat. He architects and implements production-grade provisioning and lifecycle services in Go, leading teams that integrate OpenShift with AWS, GCP and Azure. A pragmatic backend and DevOps engineer, Zohar has contributed notable open-source work to ManageIQ and several OpenShift projects—improving Kubernetes/OpenShift integration, Prometheus deployment automation, and autoscaling features for ROSA. His background spans low-level embedded and high-frequency trading systems in C/C++ to modern microservices, giving him a rare full-stack systems perspective. Known for driving migrations and modernization (e.g., Atomic→OpenShift, C++14 adoption) he blends deep technical fluency with operational reliability. Outside core engineering he also trains as a long-distance running instructor, reflecting discipline and endurance in both team leadership and engineering delivery.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Programmer, Software, Programmer, Software at MamramB.Sc, Computer Science, B.Sc, Computer Science at Tel Aviv UniversityInstructor, Long Distance Running, Instructor, Long Distance Running at Wingate Institute
Hebrew, English
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Github Skills (50)
monitoring10
api-rest10
ruby-rails10
kubernetes10
docker10
data-collection10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
command-line-interface10
rails10
containerization10
dockers10
ruby10
automation10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/rosa
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:117 reviews, 23 commits, 24 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Zohar primarily focused on enhancing the autoscaling capabilities within the ROSA (Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS) project. Their contributions involved adding autoscaling support to various cluster management commands, including create, edit, and describe functionalities. They also modified machine pool configurations to incorporate autoscaling parameters like minimum and maximum replicas. Furthermore, the user made updates to the UI for spot instance flags.
openshift/openshift-tools
Nov 2016 - Feb 2017
A public repository of scripts used by OpenShift Operations for various purposes
Role in this project:DevOps & Backend Engineer
DevOps & Backend EngineerContributions:36 commits, 62 PRs, 134 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Zohar primarily contributed to the monitoring and metrics collection infrastructure within the OpenShift tools repository. They developed a `MetricSender` class to wrap various metric senders like ZaggSender and HawkSender. The user's work included implementing configuration parsing for different metric clients, adding functionality for sending heartbeats, dynamic metrics, and standard metrics. They also refactored existing scripts to utilize the newly created `MetricSender` class for consistent metric reporting.
public-repositorykubernetesopenshift
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