DevOps Leaders Podcast

Platforma 2026 | Romi Hemo from HoneyBook - No Fear to Break 16.06.2026 14min

Join us as we explore how you actually break into DevOps — and thrive once you're there! In this episode, Romi Hemo, DevOps Engineer at HoneyBook, shares how she went from QA automation to owning production deploys by refusing to fear touching, breaking, or taking on more than her job asked. Discover how she "stole" her way into the role one task at a time, why her team tore out a pile of deploy scripts for a Go + Temporal "Deploy Service" running GitOps with Argo CD, and her bet that in the AI era "everyone is a builder" and it's all just prompts. Romi Hemo on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/romi-hemo-9b39b2214/ Miki Manor on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikimanor/ Ofir Stein on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ofir-stein/ DevOps Leaders - https://www.linkedin.com/company/devops-leaders-il/posts/?feedView=all Key takeaways: From QA automation to DevOps: the path was a strong infra/automation base, then "stealing" DevOps tasks one at a time until the move was obvious — value first, permission later. Her two rules for breaking in: come in without fear (to try, to break — DevOps breaks a lot) and relentlessly create added value beyond your job description. Tearing out messy, duplicated deploy scripts for a purpose-built "Deploy Service" in Go + Temporal — and surviving the over-engineering trap on the way ("how will I look in two years?"). The move from a Helm installer to GitOps with Argo CD: commit, push, and let Argo reconcile the cluster to desired state — plus using Port for production and staging deploys. The payoff for developers: fewer failures, more visibility, more self-service capability, and far less getting blocked. * Working AI-native today — 4 parallel tasks and 4 Claude tabs open, more time on planning and less on the small stuff, but you have to watch what the agent actually wrote in the PR before giving it free rein. Her prediction for the AI era: "everyone is a builder," the future platform is mostly text and prompts — "I just talk to Claude and it does everything I need." We're recording live from the Platforma 2026 conference in Tel Aviv, featuring fascinating discussions on AI and more. Join our exclusive DevOps Leaders community with over 300 members, where we share knowledge and improve together. What's your biggest challenge in the DevOps field? Drop it in the comments! Subscribe for weekly insights and updates on the latest in DevOps! #DevOps #Podcast #Technology #AI #HoneyBook

PlatforMa 2026 | Oren Efraim from Check Point - AI Floods The Gate 09.06.2026 16min

Join us as we explore what happens when AI generates vulnerabilities faster than any human can review them! In this episode, Oren Efraim, Technology Leader at Check Point (and leader of the 10,000-member Node.js Israel community), explains why security has to become a first-class part of your platform — not a gate at the end. Discover why 2025's ~50,000 new vulnerabilities are heading toward 100,000, why Check Point's research shows 96% of exploited vulnerabilities aren't even new, and why a CVSS score of 9.9 tells you almost nothing without context.Oren Efraim on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/orenefr/Miki Manor on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikimanor/Ofir Stein on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ofir-stein/DevOps Leaders - https://www.linkedin.com/company/devops-leaders-il/posts/?feedView=allKey takeaways:* The vulnerability flood is real: ~50,000 new vulnerabilities in 2025, heading to 70,000–100,000 as AI coding tools multiply the output* Check Point's research bombshell: 96% of exploited vulnerabilities are NOT new — they already existed, and nobody patched them* "Mythos" and the new class of AI models that can map your whole system and find advanced vulnerabilities only veteran security researchers used to catch* Why a weapon in one person's hands is more dangerous than a weapon everyone has — the zero-day economics of AI-found exploits in open-source libraries* We don't write code by hand anymore: bring a *different* model with no bias to security-review the code your first model wrote ("the suspect is also the victim")* Why a 9.9 severity score means nothing without context — attack surface, networking, permissions, and business logic decide what's actually critical* How to kill the security bottleneck: move from rigid context-free scanners to an agentic system that decides in context, so deployments don't stall* Who owns the context? Developers know the logic, platform people know the exposure, product people know what the business can't afford to lose — plus detecting drift between what's defined and what's actually runningWe're recording live from the Platforma 2026 conference in Tel Aviv, featuring fascinating discussions on AI and more.Join our exclusive DevOps Leaders community with over 300 members, where we share knowledge and improve together.What's your biggest challenge in the DevOps field? Drop it in the comments! Subscribe for weekly insights and updates on the latest in DevOps!#DevOps #Podcast #Technology #AI #CheckPoint

PlatforMa 2026 | Erik Parienty from Riskified - The Second Revolution 07.06.2026 17min

What if, in five years, the system builds itself — a product manager describes what they want, an architect agent inspects the existing codebase, and the feature gets written without a traditional dev team in the loop? In this episode, Erik Parienty, Director of DevOps Engineering at Riskified, lays out that future and what it means for the people running infrastructure today. Erik has spent 7 years scaling Riskified's DevOps from a 6-person team through the company's IPO, and he's been in the field since long before the word "DevOps" existed — which gives him a rare long-lens view on what he calls the discipline's "second revolution."Erik Parienty on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-parientyMiki Manor on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikimanor/Ofir Stein on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ofir-stein/DevOps Leaders - https://www.linkedin.com/company/devops-leaders-il/posts/?feedView=allKey takeaways:The "second revolution": the first wave standardized CI/CD and Kubernetes — the next automates the entire SDLC and PDLC, from the product idea forwardThe future org chart: a product manager talks to an architect agent that reads your system and decides whether to customize what exists or build something newStop blaming the model — Erik's reframe: "if you told it and it didn't do it, you don't understand it." The agent is a tool; agent literacy is the new Google searchThe rise of the one-person company — why you no longer need to raise a round to build, and why (like the Google panic) revolutions create more work, not lessThe FinOps cautionary tale: an agent insists your $2M Kubernetes cluster costs $50, because it pulled context from a random server tagged "kubernetes"Where DevOps still wins: human adaptability. The communication skills we use with people are exactly what make someone good at operating agentsThe coming open-source agent ecosystem — git clone a community-maintained agent, run it locally, and it just does the work, the way we run Karpenter and cluster-autoscaler todayThe measurement problem nobody's solved: from counting lines of code at Amdocs to counting tokens — and what that says about productivityWhat AI still can't touch — infrastructure. Root-cause analysis across distributed systems is the real frontier, well beyond today's self-healing watchdogsWe're recording live from the PlatforMa conference in Tel Aviv, featuring fascinating discussions on AI and more.Join our exclusive DevOps Leaders community with over 300 members, where we share knowledge and improve together.What's your biggest challenge in the DevOps field? Drop it in the comments! Subscribe for weekly insights and updates on the latest in DevOps!#DevOps #Podcast #Technology #AI #Riskified

PlatforMa 2026 | Amit Daniel from DoorLoop - CI/CD at AI Speed 04.06.2026 14min

Join us as we explore what happens to your pipeline when AI turns every developer into a 10x builder! In this episode, Amit Daniel, Director of DevOps at DoorLoop, shares how a fast-moving Israeli proptech went from 40 to 300–500 pull requests a day — and how his team fought back against cloud costs that exploded 5-6x overnight. Discover why writing code fast is no longer the challenge but writing it efficiently is, where humans must stay in the loop when "the suspect is also the victim," and how DoorLoop built an internal platform that lets HR and Finance ship to production safely.Amit Daniel on LinkedIn - https://il.linkedin.com/in/amit-daniel-%F0%9F%8E%97%EF%B8%8F-%F0%9F%87%AE%F0%9F%87%B1-58062a62Miki Manor on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikimanor/Ofir Stein on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ofir-stein/DevOps Leaders - https://www.linkedin.com/company/devops-leaders-il/posts/?feedView=allKey takeaways:From 40 to 500 PRs a day — the new SDLC bottleneck nobody planned forHow "Fusion Week" exposed a 5-6x cloud cost explosion, and the caching, test mapping, and right-sized runners that fixed itWhy security vulnerability reviews are non-negotiable when AI writes the code"The suspect is also the victim" — where to place checkpoints when AI writes, plans, tests, and reviews itselfWhy Claude investigates production incidents at DoorLoop, but never acts without human approvalSkills as your differentiator — tailoring AI to your business instead of getting generic reviewsDeploy By: the internal platform that turns HR, Finance, and Product into safe buildersWe're recording live from the PlatforMa conference in Tel Aviv, featuring fascinating discussions on AI and more.Join our exclusive DevOps Leaders community with over 300 members, where we share knowledge and improve together.What's your biggest challenge in the DevOps field? Drop it in the comments! Subscribe for weekly insights and updates on the latest in DevOps!#DevOps #Podcast #Technology #AI #DoorLoop

PlatforMa 2026 | Sharon Vendrov from SysAid - Where AI Still Fails 02.06.2026 12min

Join us as we explore what really happens when you push AI into every corner of a DevOps organization! In this episode, Sharon Vendrov, VP Cloud Infrastructure & IT at SysAid, shares how a 20-year-old company with deep legacy code went AI-first — and the hard truth about where AI still falls short. Discover why non-deterministic AI is so challenging in Production, how Claude's code reviews got good enough to question dedicated security scanners, and why Sharon predicts a coming "renaissance" of QA.Sharon Vendrov on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-vendrov-91309975/Miki Manor on LinkedIn -https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikimanor/Ofir Stein on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ofir-stein/DevOps Leaders - https://www.linkedin.com/company/devops-leaders-il/posts/?feedView=allKey takeaways:* How SysAid became AI-first across the entire org* The challenge of non-deterministic AI in Production environments* Why Claude code reviews are changing the security scanning game* The coming "renaissance" of QA and why quality is the pain nobody talks about* How Product and Engineering roles are starting to blur* What AI still can't do — like cracking root cause on real production incidents* We're recording live from the PlatforMa conference in Tel Aviv, featuring fascinating discussions on AI and more.Join our exclusive DevOps Leaders community with over 300 members, where we share knowledge and improve together.What's your biggest challenge in the DevOps field? Drop it in the comments! Subscribe for weekly insights and updates on the latest in DevOps!#DevOps #Podcast #Technology #AI #SysAid

PlatforMa 2026 | Amir Mehler from PhaseV - Platform for Researchers 31.05.2026 12min

Join us as we explore the fascinating world of clinical trials and data science! In this video, Amir Mehler shares insights from his 15 years of experience in DevOps and SRE, now focusing on clinical trials at PhaseV. Discover how data-driven decisions are transforming the pharmaceutical industry and the challenges faced in managing clinical trials.Amir Mehler on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirmehler/Miki Manor on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikimanor/Ofir Stein on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ofir-stein/DevOps Leaders - https://www.linkedin.com/company/devops-leaders-il/posts/?feedView=all Key takeaways:Amir's journey from startups to PhaseVThe importance of data in clinical trialsHow DevOps integrates with clinical researchChallenges in managing clinical trial dataThe role of AI in improving efficiencyWe're recording live from a PlatforMa conference in Tel Aviv, featuring fascinating discussions on AI and more.Join our exclusive DevOps Leaders community with over 300 members, where we share knowledge and improve together.What's your biggest challenge in the DevOps field? Drop it in the comments!Subscribe for weekly insights and updates on the latest in DevOps!#DevOps #Podcast #Technology

We're Back: DevOps Leaders IL, Season 2 26.05.2026 3min

Join us for the exciting kickoff of Season #2 of our DevOps Leaders podcast! 🎙️Key takeaways:* The podcast has been running for three years, and we're thrilled to return for Season 2.* Meet our new co-host, Miki Manor, who brings fresh insights to the table.* We're recording live from a PlatforMa conference in Tel Aviv, featuring fascinating discussions on AI and more.* Join our exclusive DevOps Leaders community with over 300 members, where we share knowledge and improve together.What's your biggest challenge in the DevOps field? Drop it in the comments!Subscribe for weekly insights and updates on the latest in DevOps!#DevOps #Podcast #Technology

27. Keren from D-ID - AI Inference & Smart routing in K8s 11.03.2026 51min

Follow us for more awesome and exciting conversations!In this episode, Keren, head of DevOps at D-ID, shares her journey from military service to leading DevOps teams, discusses the intersection of DevOps and AI, and explores the future of MLOps and AI infrastructure. Gain insights into AI model training, inference, GPU management, and the evolving role of DevOps in AI-driven environments.Keren on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/keren-birzon/Eliran Wolf on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliran-wolf-devops/Ofir Stein on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ofir-stein/DevOps Leaders - https://www.linkedin.com/company/devops-leaders-il/posts/?feedView=all

26. Maish & Hila - Co-organizers @ DevOps Days 2025 04.02.2026 11min

Follow us for more awesome and exciting conversations!This conversation takes place at DevOps Days 2025 in Israel, featuring guests and co-organizers Hila and Maish.Hila on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/hila-fishMaish on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/maishsk/Eliran Wolf on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliran-wolf-devops/Ofir Stein on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ofir-stein/DevOps Leaders - https://www.linkedin.com/company/devops-leaders-il/posts/?feedView=all

25. Matan from Port.io - DevOps Days 2025 14.01.2026 12min

Follow us for more awesome and exciting chats!This conversation takes place at DevOps Days 2025 in Israel, featuring guest Matan Heled, DevOps Team Lead at Port. Matan talks about the Role of AI in Developer Portals, Product Development and User Feedback and the Future of Developer Portals and Customization.Matan on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/matan-heled/Eliran Wolf on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliran-wolf-devops/Ofir Stein on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ofir-stein/DevOps Leaders - https://www.linkedin.com/company/devops-leaders-il/posts/?feedView=all

24. Shahar from Groundcover - DevOps Days 2025 01.01.2026 20min

This conversation takes place at DevOps Days 2025 in Israel, featuring guest Shahar Azulay, CEO and Co-Founder of Groundcover. Shahar explains the complexity of monitoring kubernetes and cloud environments, the advantages of BYOC, with a focus on cost. Shahar on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahar-azulay-54156bb4/Eliran Wolf on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliran-wolf-devops/Ofir Stein on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ofir-stein/DevOps Leaders - https://www.linkedin.com/company/devops-leaders-il/posts/?feedView=all

23. Shon from Wand Cloud - DevOps Days 2025 30.12.2025 12min

This conversation takes place at DevOps Days 2025 in Israel, featuring guest Shon Lev-Ran, CEO and Co-Founder of Wand Cloud. Shon takes us through the complications of migrations to Kubernetes from the cost aspect, the cost of using serverless frameworks, and how to efficiently use resources in the cloud.Shon on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/shon-lev-ran/Eliran Wolf on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliran-wolf-devops/Ofir Stein on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ofir-stein/DevOps Leaders - https://www.linkedin.com/company/devops-leaders-il/posts/?feedView=all

22. Henrik Koren from Dell - DevOps Days 2025 24.12.2025 19min

This conversation takes place at DevOps Days 2025 in Israel, featuring guest Henrik Koren, Infrastructure Architect at Dell. This episode focues on the development stacks and tools used in large organizations. He emphasizes the importance of developer experience and automation in scaling DevOps practices. Henrik also shares insights on the future of DevOps, particularly the integration of AI solutions to enhance efficiency and problem-solving capabilities.Henrik on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/henrik-koren-7478955/Eliran Wolf on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliran-wolf-devops/Ofir Stein on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ofir-stein/DevOps Leaders - https://www.linkedin.com/company/devops-leaders-il/posts/?feedView=all

21. Itiel Shwartz from Komodor - DevOps Days 2025 17.12.2025 18min

This conversation takes place at DevOps Days 2025 in Israel, featuring guest Itiel Shwartz, founder of Komodor. Together, we discuss the beginning and the future of the Kubernetes ecosystem, as well as Kubernetes AI Agents, and how large enterprises are migrating to using Kubernetes.Itiel on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/itiel-shwartz-18542853/Eliran Wolf on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliran-wolf-devops/Ofir Stein on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ofir-stein/DevOps Leaders - https://www.linkedin.com/company/devops-leaders-il/posts/?feedView=all

20. Boaz & Elhay from Dream Security - DevOps Days 2025 16.12.2025 16min

This conversation takes place at DevOps Days 2025 in Israel, featuring guests Boaz and Elhay from Dream Security. They discuss the challenges and innovations focusing on DevOps in Cyber AI and Threat Intelligence. The conversation also delves into the complexities of working in air-gapped environments and the importance of adaptability in DevOps practices. Boaz on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/boaz-azulay-94a94371/Elhay on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/elhayefrat/Eliran Wolf on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliran-wolf-devops/Ofir Stein on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ofir-stein/DevOps Leaders - https://www.linkedin.com/company/devops-leaders-il/posts/?feedView=all

19. Community, Diversity and AI in Tech - Bobby Dorlus, The Tech Hustle 07.12.2025 55min

Come to our booth at DevOps Days TLV! https://devopsdays.org/events/2025-tel-aviv/welcome/In this conversation, Bobby D shares his extensive journey in technology and engineering, emphasizing the importance of community, diversity, and the future of AI in the tech industry. He discusses his role in the Tech Hustle community, which aims to uplift underrepresented engineers, and highlights the value of collaboration and mentorship. Bobby also delves into the distinctions between DevOps and SRE, the challenges of reliability in tech, and how AI can enhance engineering practices. His insights reflect a deep understanding of the evolving landscape of technology and the critical role of community in fostering growth and innovation.Bobby on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/j-bobby-dorlus/The Tech Hustle - https://thetechhustle.com/Eliran Wolf on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliran-wolf-devops/Ofir Stein on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ofir-stein/DevOps Leaders - https://www.linkedin.com/company/devops-leaders-il/posts/?feedView=all

18. The future of Dev Tools - Solomon Hykes, founder of Docker & Dagger 02.12.2025 51min

We just hosted the one and only Solomon Hykes, founder of Docker and now founder of Dagger, on the DevOps Leaders podcast! 🎙️ Ahead of next month’s DevOpsDays Israel, we dove into:-How he built Docker from the ground up what it really takes to create tools developers love-The exact moment he realized Docker had “made it” and what drives him today-And where the future of software development is headedEliran Wolf on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliran-wolf-devops/Ofir Stein on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ofir-stein/DevOps Leaders - https://www.linkedin.com/company/devops-leaders-il/posts/?feedView=all

17. אלי קורן מVast Data - און-פרם ומאות אלפי שרתים בסקייל 18.08.2025 59min

השבוע נפגשנו עם אלי קורן, שמוביל את הדבאופס ואבטחה בVast Data, חברה ישראלית בונה מערכת הפעלה לAI, כשבין לקוחותיה חברות ענק שצורכות AI בסקייל גבוה.לאי סיפר לנו על היסטוריית התפקידים שלו, על עבודה On Prem, על הגישה שלו לפתרון בעיות, ועל מה עושה דבאופס טוב - דבאופס טוב. Eliran Wolf on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliran-wolf-devops/Ofir Stein on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ofir-stein/DevOps Leaders - https://www.linkedin.com/company/devops-leaders-il/posts/?feedView=all

16. כנס Platforma חלק 3 23.07.2025 1h 19min

חלק שלישי ואחרון של הספיישל המיוחד שלנו - מהדוכן שהקמנו מתוך כנס Platforma – הכנס הראשון בישראל שמוקדש כולו לPlatform engineering. לינק לכנס:PlatforMa Conference - https://www.platfor-ma.com/האורחים:Doron Gutman from Honeybook - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dorongutman/Tal Kimhi from Draftt - https://www.linkedin.com/in/talkimhi/Achi Solomon from Yotpo- https://www.linkedin.com/in/achisolomon/Rami Stern from Taboola - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rami-stern-84219b3/Scott Rosenberg from Terasky- https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-rosenberg/

15. כנס Platforma חלק 2 10.06.2025 1h 7min

חלק שני של הספיישל המיוחד שלנו - מהדוכן שהקמנו מתוך כנס Platforma – הכנס הראשון בישראל שמוקדש כולו לPlatform engineering. לינק לכנס:PlatforMa Conference - https://www.platfor-ma.com/האורחים:Yuval Press from Elementor - https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuvalpress/Ben Malka from Monday.com - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-malka-887514163/Yaacov Goodman from Checkpoint- https://www.linkedin.com/in/ygood/Mor Maman from Planck - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mor-r-m/Shiran Shem Tov Melamed from JFrog- https://www.linkedin.com/in/shiran-shem-tov-melamed/