Alexandru Dracea
Principal Security Architect at Teciem
Bucharest, Romania
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Top SchoolAlexandru Dracea is a Principal Security Architect based in Bucharest with nine years of hands-on experience building secure software and leading security engineering at Finastra and now Teciem. He blends deep application-security expertise with backend development, contributing bug fixes and deduplication improvements to the widely used DefectDojo open-source platform. Alexandru’s career grew from automation engineering roots—he’s comfortable moving from low-level system quirks to enterprise security architecture—and he’s known for fixing tricky edge cases like UTF-8 encoding and report import deduplication. He advances security tooling and developer-friendly integrations while mentoring teams through progressive roles from analyst to principal engineer. Colleagues praise his practical mindset: he’s built and maintained real systems (and even elevators, metaphorically) while continually learning and improving security posture.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Automation Engineer Technology/Technician, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician at Universitatea „Politehnica” din București
Github Skills (9)
security10
vulnerability-management10
python10
django10
utf9
hashlib9
snyk9
automations8
automation8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
DefectDojo/django-DefectDojo
Mar 2019 - Jun 2021
DevSecOps, ASPM, Vulnerability Management. All on one platform.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:22 commits, 16 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Alexandru primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the DefectDojo platform related to security report imports and deduplication. The contributions involved resolving UTF-8 encoding issues, handling edge cases in Burp and Snyk reports, and improving deduplication logic. Several commits also addressed flake8 errors and corrected the hash code computation for findings.
pythondjangovulnerability-managementbugbountydefectdojo
DefectDojo/Burp-Plugin
Mar 2019 - Apr 2021
A Burp plugin to export findings to DefectDojo
Contributions:35 commits, 27 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years
exportburpburp-plugindefectdojofindings
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