Alex Bugosh
alex@alexbugosh.com
Experience
Principle Engineer at Jellyvision June 2018 - Present
- Acted as the Technical Security expert across the engineering organization
- Advised senior leadership on strategy
- Designed the architecture for integrating with new partners
- Developed and implemented a new interview framework for engineering hiring
- Worked directly with the frontend tooling team to improve its architecture, processes, and practices
Security Architect at Jellyvision March 2017 - June 2018
- Acted as the Technical Security expert across the engineering organization
- Developed security policy while working with stakeholders throughout the organization
- Managed access to AWS via policy and roles developed in IAM
- Worked with our engineering teams on deploying AWS Cognito
- Identified vulnerabilities in our AWS infrastructure and worked with the Operations team to develop remediations
- Performed secure code reviews and worked with engineering teams to deploy fixes
Tech Lead Platform at Jellyvision September 2016 - March 2017
- Refactored core parts of the platform while adding extensive testing
- Developed an integration test suite to cover core application loading
- Coordinated across the engineering organization to develop and deploy changes to url handling
- Mentored junior members of the team on developing new micro services
Senior Software Engineer at Avant January 2016 - July 2016
- Upgraded Avant's large monolithic Rails application from Rails 3.2 to Rails 4.2
- Developed framework for doing performance tuning in Rails applications using profilers and ActiveSupport::Notifications
- Designed and prototyped a service to service authentication solution for future SOA development
- Managed Avant's bug bounty program
- Analyzed database for sensitive data and worked with teams to remove or encrypt the sensitive data
- Developed Elixir proof of concept finance calucator and gave several internal presentations on Elixir
Senior Software Engineer at Effective Software Solutions, Inc. March 2015 - December 2016
- Implemented compression improvements improving bandwidth usage by 30% using C++
- Improved build and rebuild times by updating build targets across the project Automake build system
- Developed test framework for remote sensor platform using C++
- Supported team transition for node.js project that served as user interface for remote sensor platform
- Worked as a part of an agile SCRUM team
Senior Software Engineer at PROTEUS Technologies June 2014 - March 2015
Project D August 2014 - March 2015
- Developed user stories and api documents for system
- Developed prototype user survey tool using Ruby on Rails
IMC Project June 2014 - October 2014
- Co-authored winning IMC proposal
- Modified Android Booloader to include security enhancements
- Presented findings to customer
Senior Cyber Engineer at Raytheon August 2013 - June 2014
- Performed vulnerability analysis of various applications using a combination of custom fuzzing frameworks and IDA Pro
- Performed vulnerability analysis on a micro controller platform, successfully reverse engineered data encoding method on target
- Performed code audits on open source products
- Developed extensions to custom analysis platform using C and used data to enhance IDA databases using IDAPython
- Performed research on static code analysis with a focus on finding methods of enhancing static analysis capabilities with data from dynamic program runs
- Developed document database with a Backbone.js and Bootstrap front-end, Django middleware, and programmaticly utilized a combination of Git and MySQL for storage
Software Engineer at PROTEUS Technologies July 2010 - August 2013
Security Research January 2013-August 2013
- Developing fuzzing capabilities for the Android platform
- Working with and building upon the MWR Mercury Framework
- Assisted with development of internal prototype capabilities
Project C Software Engineer January 2013-August 2013
- Developed QRC prototype capabilities using JRuby, Ruby on Rails, jQuery, Backbone.js, Redis, Bootstrap, and Oracle
- Developed administration tools for maintaining systems distributed across enterprise and off-site non-enterprise locations using Ruby, Python, and Bash
- Developed processes and tools for deploying systems at off-site non-enterprise locations
- Enhanced and expanded an existing Java Spring web application
- Deployed systems and tools to off-site non-enterprise locations
Project B Software Engineer February 2012-January 2013
- Maintained, updated, and refactored a Ruby on Rails application with a MySQL database
- Administered 25+ virtual servers distributed across the enterprise
- Developed Puppet scripts for automating deployments across enterprise locations
- Maintained, deployed, and setup CM tools for the team such as Gitlab, Jenkins, and RVM:FW
- Expanded the project's utilization of Redis as a caching and queuing tool to enhance application performance
Project A Software Engineer September 2010-February 2012
- Developed Ruby on Rails application for displaying, correlating, and searching analytics data using JRuby, Ruby on Rails, and Oracle
- Developed framework for building Javascript based widgets within the Ozone Widget Framework
- Developed and designed QRC capabilities using Ruby on Rails, JQuery, and Backbone.js
- Developed and designed processes for ingesting and tracking ingested data through its full lifecycle
- Worked as a part of a agile SCRUM team
- Wrote user stories and conducted research through user interviews
Software Development Intern at Right Reason Technologies January 2010 - June 2010
Research Assistant at East Stroudsburg University June 2009 - May 2010
- Developed a Steganalysis framework for detecting hidden signals in videos using machine learning techniques
- Developed a fault tolerant Java program which interfaces with a modified version of FFMPEG in order to generate test data
- Led software engineering efforts and administered design, implementation and management of the project’s PostgreSQL database
Founder at Startup March 2009 - July 2009
Web Developer at Wireless Solutions International September 2007 - January 2009
Skills
Languages |
Web Technologies |
Other |
Ruby |
Ruby on Rails |
Git |
Javascript |
Backbone.js |
Linux |
Bash |
jQuery |
MySQL |
Java |
Bootstrap |
PostgreSQL |
C |
HTML/CSS |
Redis |
C++ |
REST |
Vim |
Elixir |
AJAX |
Scrum |
Education
B.S. Computer Science and Computer Security from East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania 2007-2010