About
Itamar Ratson.
DevOps engineer. I build and maintain the path from a developer's laptop to production.
How I got here
My first real DevOps lesson was the oldest line in software, "it works on my machine." I'd trained as a developer, and the code that ran fine on my laptop broke the first time I deployed it to a remote Linux server. Chasing the reason led me to Docker, and to a better question than the one I started with: not whether a feature works, but whether it works the same way for everyone, every time.
Background
I trained as a full-stack developer at John Bryce, then specialized in DevOps at Infinity Labs, so I read a system from both sides: the code that has to ship, and the pipeline that has to ship it.
Coming full circle
The tool that pulled me into all this was Docker. Years later I met Solomon Hykes, the engineer who created it, at DevOpsDays Tel Aviv, and got to thank him for the rabbit hole.
Credentials and recognition
- AWS Solution Architect – Associate
Certified
- 2nd place, AWS GameDay: Generative AI Unicorn Party @ AWS Summit Tel Aviv 2025
- Won tickets to DevOpsDays and PlatForma through FlipTheScript initiatives
Selected work
- DevSecOps hybrid-cloud
A hybrid-cloud pipeline with security wired into the build, not bolted on after.
- Backstage IDP
An internal developer platform on Kubernetes: a paved road to ship.
- Kubernetes e2e tests
End-to-end test coverage for the ingress2gateway project, built on KinD with a BATS suite.