Adi Suissa-peleg is a software engineer with 12 years of experience applying deep academic training (PhD and postdoc) to production-grade distributed systems and security-focused infrastructure. Based in Cambridge, MA and currently at Google, he has a strong track record in backend systems, contributing significant improvements to the Envoy proxy and to OSS-Fuzz鈥檚 build and fuzzing pipelines to harden open-source projects. His expertise spans HTTP/2 internals, configuration validation, and sanitizer-driven CI builds, reflecting a blend of research rigor and pragmatic engineering. Notably, his open-source work targets both feature robustness and security tooling, showing a rare combination of protocol-level contributions and build/DevOps security engineering.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Software Engineering, B.Sc., Software Engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
M.Sc., Computer Science, M.Sc., Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Universitat Ben Gurion Ba-Negev
Contributions:3600 reviews, 82 commits, 492 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Adi primarily contributed to the Envoy proxy project through the implementation and testing of core functionalities. Their work focused on extending the HTTP/2 framework by providing support for various frame types like "Metadata", as well as improving the overall stability and handling of existing HTTP/1.x and HTTP/2 features. These changes included improvements in the caching of configuration resources and validation of config fields, with an overall goal to make the proxy project more resilient to invalid configurations. Furthermore, they implemented and tested changes for the core components, such as rate-limiting, and made performance improvements to existing classes.
OSS-Fuzz - continuous fuzzing for open source software.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Security Engineer
Contributions:6 reviews, 13 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Adi primarily contributes to the build and fuzzing infrastructure of the Envoy project within OSS-Fuzz. Their work involves modifying the build process using `build.sh` scripts, including configuring sanitizers like UBSAN and AddressSanitizer to detect vulnerabilities. They update Bazel configurations, incorporate changes related to CI environments, and fix build issues related to dependencies, indicating a focus on maintaining the security and robustness of the build process.
oss-fuzzfuzz-testingossvulnerabilitiessecurity
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