Alexey Pronin
Security Engineer II at Amazon
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexey Pronin is a Security Engineer II with over a decade of hands-on experience spanning application security, cloud security, DevSecOps, and penetration testing, now based in Amsterdam and working at Amazon. He blends deep technical execution with engineering leadership—designing security automation and cloud platforms, leading PCI DSS audits, and building scalable, secure-by-default operations and teams. Alexey has a track record of applied security research and responsible vulnerability disclosure, including multiple CVEs, and contributes practical fixes to major open-source projects like SaltStack. He excels at developer enablement and shift-left practices, accelerating secure provisioning and SSDLC adoption in high-impact environments. Comfortable moving systems from legacy on-prem to cloud-native architectures, he prefers solving systemic risks with automation rather than one-off fixes. Outside work he cycles, hikes, and travels—habits that mirror his investigative curiosity and endurance in security work.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Data protection, Master's degree Data protection at Kikot University of the MIA
English, Dutch
Github Skills (7)
configuration-management10
infrastructure-as-code10
saltstack10
python10
remote-execution9
automation8
cloud-manager8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack/salt
Oct 2018 - Dec 2019
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Alexey primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements in the SaltStack project. Their work included correcting incorrect ID handling in file states and addressing issues related to GPG keys within states and modules. They also added a `reload_` alias for the reload function in the gentoo_service module and fixed linting errors. Their contributions suggest a focus on maintaining and improving core functionalities of the SaltStack framework.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
rbkmoney/registrator
Sep 2018 - Feb 2021
Service registry bridge for Docker with pluggable adapters
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
service-registrycdrdocker-machinebridgedocker
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