Eitan Shalev

Staff site reliability engineer based in Tel Aviv, currently consulting for Series B-D infrastructure teams on rollout reliability and SLO design. Writes about the engineering decisions that prevent 3am pages — not the ones that cause them.

2 landings by Eitan Shalev.

• AI Feature Flags & Progressive Rollouts
• Platform Engineering & SRE Culture

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  AI Pair Programming: Ship the Code It Writes, Safely

  October 18, 2026

  AI pair programming speeds up the first draft. The release is the part that needs guardrails: gradual rollouts, feature flags and automatic rollback on SLO.

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  AI for Software Development: Ship Fast, Recover Faster

  July 26, 2026

  AI for software development means more code, faster. It also means more incidents, per DORA's own 2025 data. upstreamapi auto-rolls back the ones that would have paged you.