Elia Shkedy

Senior Staff Engineer,

Prisma Access at Palo Alto Networks

2022-Today

• Lead automation and quality efforts for next generation VPN solution
• Design and plan features, requirements refining, quality pass/fail criteria - definition of done
• Implement automated functional tests for network system agent, integrate regression into CICD pipelines
• Plan and develop in-house infrastructure for scalable, reliable automation, supporting cross platform test environments, utilizing AWS, GCP, dockers, vmware and pytest
• Secure CICD focal point, including SAST: Static Application Security Testing, SCA: Software Composition Analysis, Secrets management
• Develop procedures and training, analyze and report quality trends

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Enviormental and Social Entrepreneur

COVID-19 Mission

2020-2022

• Lead sustainability projects with Tel Avivs municipal Environmental Protection Authority
• Lead community garden at Hadar Yosef, Tel Aviv
• Assist establishing NGO - Physicians Association for Nutrition Israel

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Full Stack Developer

at Vegan Friendly, NGO

2019

• Design and implement CMS integrating financial transactions, Salesforce CRM, Google Analytics, Apple and Android React Native production applications, utilizing django-python
• Migrate existing systems to AWS Cloud while maintaining minimal downtime for customers activity, and business operations.
• Support, test and deliver fixes for production CakePHP/WordPress portals and node-react microservices.

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Full Stack Developer

&More at xiv-IBM

2010 - 2019

Management Tools SW Developer

• Front End developer of IBM Storage Insights - a cloud-based monitoring and management system products across IBM SAN portfolio.
• Full Stack Developer for IBM Hyper Scale Manager, a web based UI for A9000 and XIV - enterprise storage solutions
• Technologies utilized in the above include among other: ES6, React-Redux, AngularJS, node.js, Java 8, HTML5, and Sass.
• Key team member, contributing to every phase of the software development life cycle, including requirements analysis, system design, development, implementation, testing, support and collaboration.

Automation Test Engineer

• Developed automated tests and verifications, implementing test cases using Python over complex in-house developed testing frame.
• Tested, troubleshoot and debug All-flash A9000/R and XIV enterprise storage arrays.
• Designed test plans and delegated team responsibilities: automated vs manual, prioritization and time frames, requirements like: system fault injections, infrastructure mandatory improvements, environment restraints.
• Maintained and executed: regression tests in addition to continuous integration development
• Provided immediate feedback to the architecture, development and release management teams to assess the readiness, risks and quality of every major and minor version release.
• Cooperated with support teams to:
• Focus test scope to real customer environments to reduce testing efforts and resources
• Assist support teams to develop action plans for field issues
• Exclusive feature ownership - Hot Upgrades, Cache Resiliency -
• training, documentation, knowledge sharing;
• planning and execution of the final upgrade path verification before each major release.

XIV Professional Services

• L3 Customer and development support for XIV - Thousands of enterprise storage devices with worldwide customer distribution.
• Troubleshot and provide root cause analysis for software and hardware issues in customers multi-platform environments.
• Lead beta programs and proof of concepts at customer sites, in addition provide xiv storage professional training courses.
• Worldwide collaboration to achieve product improvements, 24x7 customer care ensuring customer satisfaction which assisted Dev, QA and management efficiency.

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Linux, Unix and Mainframe

Sys-Admin at Mamram, IDF

2006 - 2010

• Maintained, developed and supported mission critical systems,
• in addition to conventional data center environment of 300+ physical servers, storage devices, mainframes and varied IT platforms,
• stretching from Oracle clusters via IBM AIX to VMware hypervisors.

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