About
Itamar Ratson.
DevOps engineer. I build and maintain the path from a developer's laptop to production.
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. 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 there, 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.
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
- Infinity Labs DevOps course
Certified
- AWS Solution Architect – Associate
Certified
- 2nd place, AWS GameDay: Generative AI Unicorn Party @ AWS Summit Tel Aviv 2025
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 Open-source contribution
End-to-end test coverage for the ingress2gateway project, built on KinD with a BATS suite.