Hi, I'm

Gal Sar Israel

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Building robust infrastructure  ·  Automating everything  ·  Securing the stack

11+ Years Exp.
2 Companies
3 Disciplines
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About Me

With over a decade of engineering experience, I bridge development, operations, and security. My career spans two leading Israeli technology companies - one in defense, one in cybersecurity - giving me a rare cross-domain perspective.

I started at Elbit Systems, where I spent six years in the real-time software division, first as a Test Engineer, then as an Automation Engineer. I built expertise in quality assurance and reliability for mission-critical defense systems.

Today, I work at Imperva (part of the Thales group), where I've spent five years as a DevOps & Automation Engineer in the WAF group. I help protect web applications at scale for organizations worldwide, from building CI/CD pipelines to automating security testing infrastructure.

DevOps Engineering

3 years designing and scaling CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, and cloud infrastructure for enterprise security products.

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Automation Engineering

5 years building end-to-end automation frameworks across defense and cybersecurity environments.

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B.Sc Computer Science

Holon Institute of Technology (HIT), graduated 2022.

Experience

Imperva · Thales Group

Current
2021 – Present · 5 yrs

DevOps & Automation Engineer

Cyber Security · WAF Group

Working within the Web Application Firewall group to build and maintain CI/CD infrastructure, automate testing and deployment pipelines, and improve operational efficiency for enterprise-grade cybersecurity products protecting organizations worldwide. Now operating under the Thales group umbrella.

DevOps CI/CD WAF Automation Cybersecurity Docker Python

Elbit Systems

2015 – 2021 · 6 yrs

Automation & Test Engineer

Real-time Software Division

Began as a Test Engineer and grew into an Automation Engineer role within the real-time software division. Designed and implemented automated test frameworks for embedded defense systems, ensuring reliability and performance of mission-critical software under strict real-time constraints.

Test Engineering Automation Real-time Systems Python Embedded Defense

Skills

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Cloud Platforms

AWS Azure GCP Alibaba Cloud EC2 / EKS / ECR S3 IAM CloudFormation AWS Marketplace
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DevOps & Infrastructure

Docker Kubernetes Helm OpenShift Podman Terraform Ansible Jenkins GitLab CI Linux
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Automation & Testing

Selenium PyTest Gatling JMeter CyberFlood Robot Framework REST API Testing Postman
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Security & Networking

WAF Web App Security OWASP DDoS Protection Wireshark Network Security SSL / Proxy SecOps
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Programming

Python Bash Groovy PowerShell C Java JavaScript YAML
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Tools & Platforms

Git Jira Confluence vSphere / VMware NGINX Istio / Envoy VS Code WSL
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Learning Terraform

LinkedIn Learning · March 2022

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Using Python for Automation

LinkedIn Learning · March 2022

Get In Touch

I'm always open to discussing new opportunities, interesting projects, or just having a conversation about tech, automation, and cybersecurity.