Blog - Chen Shiri

My Talk Got Accepted for the Official CNCF Kubernetes Conference in Austin, Texas

This morning started with one of those emails you never forget – the kind that makes you double-check it’s real. I woke up to the news that my talk has been officially accepted for the CNCF Kubernetes Conference in Austin, Texas. The CNCF Kubernetes Conference is the global stage where developers, engineers, and industry leaders […]

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Three Stages, Three Stories: My Cybersecurity Speaking Tour in One Week

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The last slide fades to black, the applause icon lights up, and I log off Ransomware Con 2025. I have exactly two hours before I need to be at the airport. Laptop into the backpack. Chargers. Passport. Flight to Budapest. Three days later, I’m walking into a vintage, dimly lit venue in Vilnius that feels

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The Hidden Cost of DevSecOps: Insights from My Interview at JFrog’s DevSecOps Panel

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When JFrog reached out and invited me to speak at their DevSecOps Virtual Summit, I immediately said yes – and I’m glad I did. On November 19, 2024, I joined an expert panel to tackle a hard question every modern engineering team is asking: How do we secure our code — without killing developer productivity?

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I Own Your Cluster: My Talk at BSides TLV 2024

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Last year at BSides Tel Aviv 2024 – one of the largest, known for its technical depth and strong community. I had the incredible opportunity to take the stage and share a discovery that had a significant impact on the Kubernetes and cloud security world. 🎥 Watch the full talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBT_c7MHV8 🎤 The

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The Voice Pen: From an Idea to My First National Award

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My First Invention to Help the Visually Impaired When I was just 14, I developed a product that went on to win first place in Israel’s national “I Can Too” innovation competition for accessible inventions. The competition included hundreds of participants from across the country. Later, in 10th grade, I received an official Certificate of

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Building SDR: My Award-Winning Smart Car System at 17

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At age 17, I developed a final project as part of the Gvahim Cyber Program. It earned the highest grade in the class — a perfect 100 — and was awarded with distinction. Today, I’m documenting it here on the blog both to preserve the work and to share something I’m proud of with others

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🎮 Building Eldorian Legends: Survival of The Fated- A Full FPS Game in Just 3 Weeks

Chen / Development, Game Development

What happens when two creative full-time students and workers take on the challenge of building an entire first-person survival game — with full AI, custom interactions, handcrafted terrain, and working UI — in just three weeks? You get Eldorian Legends: Survival of The Fated, a gripping Unity-based FPS adventure built from the ground up, packed

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🤖MemoDroid: How I Built a Smart Robotic Arm from Scratch While Studying and Working Full-Time

Chen / IoT, Robotics

💡 Introduction — Turning Vision Into Action MemoDroid started as a bold idea:Could I, as a single developer, design and build a fully functional robotic arm — complete with motion recording, Bluetooth control, a mobile interface, and smooth servo handling — in just a few weeks? As a full-time computer science student balancing a

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