Albert Zaharovits
Bucharest, Romania
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Top SchoolAlbert Zaharovits is a pragmatic software engineer with 12 years’ experience building secure, high-performance systems across Linux, Java, C, Python and CUDA. He has practical hands-on experience hardening distributed backends—contributing security and stability fixes to the widely used Elasticsearch project, notably around JWT authentication, role mapping and PKI flows. Past roles span identity-biometric backend work, VM-based network-tapping frameworks at Bitdefender, and parallel/CUDA research, reflecting a strong systems and security orientation. He pairs deep low-level knowledge (profiling, Fortran/C interoperability, CUDA/OpenMP) with operational skills in deployment, logging and automation. Known as a quick learner who thinks outside the box, he brings cooperative teamwork and a willingness to voice practical opinions. Based in Bucharest, he combines academic rigor (top-of-class computer science degree) with impactful open source and industry contributions.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Computer Science and Mathematics, 9.75 out of 10, High School, Computer Science and Mathematics, 9.75 out of 10 at “Mihai Viteazul” National College BucharestBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 9.27 out of 10, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 9.27 out of 10 at Universitatea „Politehnica” din București
English, French, Romanian
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Github Skills (15)
security10
elasticsearch-api10
javas10
elasticsearch10
authentication10
logging10
role-management10
elasticsearchquery10
user-authentication10
aws-elasticsearch10
java10
jwt10
amazon-elasticsearch10
code-review9
performance-optimization8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/elasticsearch
Aug 2017 - Jan 2023
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:1727 reviews, 541 commits, 1060 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Albert made contributions focused on improving the security and stability of Elasticsearch, with emphasis on JWT token authentication. Their work involved addressing vulnerabilities in role mapping, improving audit logs, and strengthening the authentication chain. The user's modifications also included fixing critical bugs in the PKI authentication process, ensuring reliable operation under complex setups.
restrestfulsearch-engineelasticsearchjava
albertzaharovits/elasticsearch
Aug 2017 - Jul 2026
Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 2940 pushes in 9 years
restrestfulsearch-engine
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