Daniel Vinakovsky
Lead Software Engineer at Schonfeld
Miami, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Vinakovsky is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building secure, production-grade systems from infrastructure to backend services, currently based in Miami. He blends hands-on engineering and systems administration expertise—early career work in datacenter migrations and monitoring informs his pragmatic approach to reliability and incident response. At Schonfeld he progressed from software engineer to lead, delivering robust trading and post-trade systems while drawing on prior roles at Liquidnet and NCC Group. An active open-source contributor, he improved authentication and security in the widely used pfSense project (adding bcrypt support) and fixed subtle caching bugs in the CherryPy web framework, reflecting deep knowledge of security and HTTP behavior. Collected training in cybersecurity (Stevens Institute) and SANS-backed competition experience underscore his focus on secure, testable code and operational excellence.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Information Technology, High School Diploma, Information Technology at Bergen County Technical High SchoolBachelor's Degree, Cybersecurity, Bachelor's Degree, Cybersecurity at Stevens Institute of Technology
English, Russian
Github Skills (13)
security10
testing10
http10
user-authentication10
php10
authentication10
caching10
python10
bcrypt10
freebsd10
http-server9
firewall9
gzip8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cherrypy/cherrypy
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
CherryPy is a pythonic, object-oriented HTTP framework. https://cherrypy.dev
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 10 comments in 15 days
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements related to caching in the CherryPy framework. They addressed issues related to gzip encoding, ensuring correct behavior and preventing caching errors. Additionally, the user added and modified tests to validate the caching functionality and the fixes implemented, demonstrating a focus on quality assurance. The commits indicate a deep understanding of the caching mechanism and its interactions with other components of the framework.
pythonpypyhttp-streaminghttp-frameworkhttp-server
pfsense/pfsense
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Main repository for pfSense
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on back-end authentication and security enhancements within the pfSense project. They introduced bcrypt password hashing for improved security, modifying existing authentication logic to support the new method. Further work included ensuring compatibility with FreeBSD and addressing style issues to maintain code quality. The user also updated and maintained core authentication and system code in the project.
netmikofirewall-rulesrouterospfsensefreebsd
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