Aaron Kondziela
Managing Security Consultant at Binary Heavy Industries LLC
Buffalo, New York, United States
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SeniorAaron Kondziela is a Managing Security Consultant and serial founder with over two decades of hands-on experience building and securing large-scale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and embedded IoT solutions. He blends deep engineering skills—spanning C, Python, Perl, containerized services, and secure auth architectures—with entrepreneurial instincts from founding multiple startups in gaming, media, and IoT. Aaron has led DevOps and cloud architecture for global media capture platforms, launched continent-expanding datacenter infrastructure, and hardened identity and SSO platforms used by major content owners. His open-source security work includes discovering and patching critical CVEs in the widely used Request Tracker system, reflecting a practical focus on real-world vulnerability remediation. Based in Buffalo, NY, he now applies that cross-domain expertise to securing hardware, embedded systems, and the convergence of AI, robotics and connected devices. Outside of engineering he produces technical media and creative projects, so he often prototypes solutions with a camera and a soldering iron as readily as with a debugger.
11 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish
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Github Skills (7)
issue-tracking10
perl10
bug-tracker10
bugtracking10
security8
ticket-tracking7
ticket-system7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bestpractical/rt
Sep 2016 - May 2017
Request Tracker, an enterprise-grade issue tracking system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily worked on dependency updates and bug fixes related to external storage integrations within the Request Tracker system. Their contributions involved bumping the File::Dropbox dependency and removing a warning hack. They also addressed merging branches, specifically incorporating an S3 endpoint update, and fixed a timing sidechannel vulnerability in password checking. These changes demonstrate a focus on maintaining and improving the core functionality and security of the issue tracking system.
helpdesk-ticketingtrackerenterprise-gradegradeperl
aaronkondziela/env
Jun 2015 - May 2021
Contributions:31 pushes in 5 years 11 months
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