Aleh Zasypkin
Platform Security Lead, Principal Software Engineer
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolAleh Zasypkin is a Berlin-based full-stack software engineer and security leader with over a decade of experience building web platforms, developer tooling, and authentication systems. As Platform Security Lead and Principal Software Engineer at Elastic he has shaped Kibana’s authentication layer and contributed to its core plugin architecture, while also maintaining a long-standing commitment to open source contributions across high-profile projects like Kibana and Mozilla’s Gaia. He founded Secutils.dev to publish practical, open-source security tooling for developers, blending pragmatic engineering with security-first design. Comfortable across front-end, back-end and systems work, Aleh pairs deep security knowledge (SAML, PKI, session management) with hands-on performance and UX improvements. An unusual constant in his career is shipping everything under open licenses, making his work reproducible and community-focused.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Degree in Computer Aided Design, Engineer-Programmer, Degree in Computer Aided Design, Engineer-Programmer at Belaruski Nacyjanal'ny Tehnièny Universitet
English, Russian, Russian
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Github Skills (25)
javascript10
back-end-development10
amazon-elasticsearch10
css10
authentication10
user-authentication10
user-interface10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
html10
elasticsearch10
frontend10
backend10
elasticsearch-api10
testing9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla-b2g/gaia
Mar 2014 - Jan 2016
DEPRECATED - Gaia is a HTML5-based Phone UI for the Boot 2 Gecko Project. NOTE: For details of what branches are used for what releases, see
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:297 commits, 208 PRs, 48 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Aleh primarily focused on front-end development, particularly within the SMS application of the Boot 2 Gecko Project (B2G). Their commits include bug fixes related to UI and style inconsistencies, such as adjusting button positions and styles within the contact deletion confirmation dialog and updating the styles of thread image previews. Furthermore, the user enhanced the user experience by implementing features like subject focus handling and improving the display of action links. The user also contributed to the performance of the application.
abandoned
elastic/kibana
Jun 2017 - Jan 2023
Your window into all of your data
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2053 reviews, 577 commits, 1429 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Aleh primarily contributed to the development of authentication features within the Kibana repository, focusing on SAML authentication. Their work included resurrecting and modifying deprecated authentication settings, implementing and testing SAML authentication providers, and addressing issues related to session management. The changes indicate a strong understanding of backend security principles and Elasticsearch APIs.
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