Ariel Taitz
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolAriel Taitz is a software engineer with eight years of professional experience and a strong foundation in mathematics from the University of Oxford. He has built back-end systems and security-sensitive features at AWS and GE Digital, and earlier worked on network- and security-focused products at Check Point and Tufin. Comfortable across Java, Python and Unix environments, he brings hands-on algorithm development experience from academic volumetric compression and robotics to production services. Ariel has contributed security and performance fixes to the widely used Cloud Foundry UAA project, including YAML parsing optimizations and an OAuth redirect URI hardening. He combines a mathematician’s rigor with pragmatic engineering—regularly upgrading dependencies and eliminating subtle vulnerabilities—to improve system maintainability and safety. Based in Israel, he favors deeply technical work that bridges algorithms, protocols and secure back-end engineering.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's, Mathematics, Master's, Mathematics at University of Oxford
Hebrew, English
Github Skills (9)
it-security10
javas10
oauth10
java10
security10
testing9
yaml9
openid-connect8
spring-boot8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/uaa
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
CloudFoundry User Account and Authentication (UAA) Server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:10 commits, 12 PRs, 13 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Ariel primarily focused on improving the security and maintainability of the UAA server. Their contributions included addressing a performance bottleneck in YAML parsing by optimizing the parsing of configuration files. They also implemented and tested a fix for a potential path traversal vulnerability in the redirect URI validation logic, improving the security of the OAuth flow. Furthermore, the user updated dependencies by upgrading the snakeyaml library, ensuring compatibility and security.
authenticationcloud-foundryoidcoidc-proxyoidc-server
taitzariel/excel-bank
Jul 2020 - Feb 2026
Contributions:71 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 8 months
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