Zohar Lorberbaum
Founder at New Patterns
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolZohar Lorberbaum is a seasoned software development and QA leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling test automation, quality processes, and video/broadcast products from startup to enterprise. As Founder of New Patterns and former Senior Director at Qumu, he blends hands-on engineering—particularly in test automation, Python scripting, and embedded/networked video systems—with strategic product and release management. He has a proven track record of transforming QA organizations, moving teams from contractor reliance to in-house engineering, and introducing innovative verification techniques for multi-screen and streaming scenarios. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he added load-testing integrations to the widely used mitmproxy project, translating recorded flows into Locust simulations and validating generated test code. Based in Mountain View, he pairs technical depth in MPEG/DVB, networking, and automation frameworks with a people-first leadership style and a background in mathematics and physics.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Mathematics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (9)
pytest10
python10
testing10
http9
mitmproxy9
debugging7
proxy7
debug7
security6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
mitmproxy/mitmproxy
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
An interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers.
Role in this project:
Backend & QA Engineer
Backend & QA EngineerContributions:5 commits in 5 days
Contributions summary:Zohar contributed significantly to the integration of load testing capabilities within the `mitmproxy` project. They implemented functionality to export flows to the Locust.io load testing tool, generating Python code for simulating user behavior. Additionally, the user wrote tests to validate the correct generation of different Locust code scenarios, ensuring the accurate representation of HTTP requests and responses. The user also updated code to adhere to pep8 standards.
http-headerpythonsslproxyja3
zlorb/locust.replay
Aug 2017 - Sep 2018
Record and playback Locust.io tests with MITMproxy
Contributions:8 commits in 1 year 1 month
testingmitmproxyplaybacklocustrecord
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