Alexander Bokovoy
Sr. Principal Software Engineer at Samba Team
Finland
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Top SchoolAlexander Bokovoy is a seasoned Sr. Principal Software Engineer with 23 years of experience designing storage networking, identity management, and GNU/Linux systems for both high-end and embedded environments. Based in Finland and currently at Red Hat, he is a long-term contributor to FreeIPA and SSSD, improving LDAP, Kerberos, sudo, and PAM integrations that power centralized authentication at scale. His background spans system-level work on Samba, mobile multimedia optimizations for Nokia’s MeeGo devices, and early stewardship of major open-source projects like Midgard and ALT Linux. A university lecturer and free-software advocate, he blends deep protocol-level expertise with pragmatic engineering—often surfacing subtle fixes (e.g., trusted domain search bases and S4U2Self improvements) that materially harden real-world deployments.
23 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Mathematics, Computer Science, MSc, Mathematics, Computer Science at Belaruski Dzjaržauny Pedagogiskij Universitet imja Maksima Tanka
Ukrainian, Russian, English, Russian, Finnish
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Github Skills (24)
ldap10
python10
kerberos10
back-end-development10
authentication10
c1110
samba10
c1710
gssapi10
active-directory10
freeipa10
authorization10
auth10
testing9
security9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
freeipa/freeipa
Jun 2011 - Nov 2022
Mirror of FreeIPA, an integrated security information management solution
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:179 reviews, 1471 commits, 1005 PRs in 11 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alexander's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the FreeIPA backend, specifically improving the handling of LDAP backend interactions and refining the authentication and authorization mechanisms. They implemented changes to accurately represent boolean values in LDAP and ensure that the password policies are correctly applied. Their work also involved introducing a new testing command for HBAC rules and modifying internal code for the S4U2Self process, improving the security of the system.
policyactive-directory-integrationpampythonfreeipa
samba-team/samba
Jun 2012 - Nov 2021
https://gitlab.com/samba-team/samba is the Official GitLab mirror of https://git.samba.org/samba.git -- Merge requests should be made on GitLab (not on GitHub)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & System Administrator
Back-end Developer & System AdministratorContributions:28 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 9 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the Samba project, a suite for providing file and print services to Windows clients. Their work focused on resolving build issues, adding compatibility for different versions of third-party libraries, improving the systemd integration for better daemon management, and fixing principal parsing in the credential handling system. Additionally, the user made changes to authentication modules and domain controller roles, suggesting an involvement in backend logic and system administration tasks within the Samba ecosystem.
sambagitlab-mirrorgitlabgit-mergemerge-requests
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