Alex Muscar
Software Engineer at N/A
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Muscar is a software engineer with 11 years' experience specialising in programming languages, concurrency, and distributed systems. He has held senior engineering roles at Snyk, Beacon Platform and Deliveroo, bringing practical expertise in back-end architecture and security-focused tooling. At Snyk he contributed to the widely used Snyk CLI, improving reachable vulnerability analysis and call-graph error reporting to make security scans more actionable. Academically grounded with a PhD track in Computer Science from the University of Craiova, he combines research-oriented thinking with hands-on production delivery. Based in Stony Stratford, UK, he thrives on tightening the gap between language-level correctness and real-world distributed system behavior. Colleagues describe him as an engineer who turns deep technical concerns about concurrency and reachability into pragmatic improvements developers can use.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at University of CraiovaPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of Craiova, Software Engineering Department
English
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Github Skills (12)
snyk10
vulnerabilities10
security-vulnerability10
monitor10
vulnerability10
security10
gradlew9
gradle9
sbt7
java5
javas5
python4
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
snyk/cli
Jun 2020 - Mar 2022
Snyk CLI scans and monitors your projects for security vulnerabilities.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:1 review, 32 commits, 25 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to improving the Snyk CLI's security scanning capabilities, focusing on reachable vulnerability analysis. Their work involved modifying code to display reachable paths for vulnerabilities, and improving error reporting around call graph generation. The user also implemented changes to the build process, including bumping the sbt plugin version, and adding flags to enhance the Gradle plugin's dependency resolution. These changes directly enhance the CLI's ability to identify and report security issues.
clisecuritysnykvulnerabilitiesmonitor
muscar/goof
Apr 2020 - Dec 2023
Super vulnerable todo list application
Contributions:18 PRs, 66 pushes, 56 branches in 3 years 8 months
vulnerablenodejstodo-listtodo
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