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