Iker Pedrosa
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
San Sebastián, Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, Spain
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Top SchoolIker Pedrosa is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat with 12 years of experience building secure, low-level system software and identity/authentication infrastructure. He has been a maintainer and contributor to critical open-source projects such as shadow-utils, linux-pam, and SSSD, focusing on security hardening, bug fixes, and reliability improvements. His background in embedded and firmware engineering (including HP’s 3D printing team and automotive eCall systems) gives him a strong systems-level perspective and discipline in safety-critical coding practices. At Red Hat he combines maintenance of widely used Linux utilities with active Fedora packaging and SELinux-aware enhancements. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, security-first fixes—memory-leak and buffer-overflow remediations are a recurring theme in his contributions. Based in San Sebastián, he brings a mix of C expertise, authentication protocol know-how, and a track record of improving foundational pieces of the Linux stack.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer and Networks Engineering (Speciality in Critical Embedded Systems), Information Technology, Double Degree, Computer and Networks Engineering (Speciality in Critical Embedded Systems), Information Technology, Double Degree at INSA ToulouseMaster in Embedded Systems, Information Technology, Double Degree, Master in Embedded Systems, Information Technology, Double Degree at Mondragón Unibertsitatea
English, Spanish, French, Basque
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Github Skills (24)
debugging10
debug10
security-hardening10
memory-management10
user-authentication10
linux10
authentication10
c1110
linux-kernel10
security10
c1710
selinux10
optimisation10
system-administration10
error-handling10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
shadow-maint/shadow
Feb 2020 - Dec 2022
Upstream shadow tree
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:431 reviews, 66 commits, 176 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Iker's primary contributions focused on enhancing the shadow-utils project, a suite of system utilities. They implemented changes to the useradd and usermod utilities, addressing SELinux integration for mailbox creation and modifying group handling logic. Furthermore, they addressed various code quality issues, including memory leaks, buffer overflows and deprecated code. These updates suggest a focus on security and reliability of the underlying system utilities.
upstreamshadow
SSSD/sssd
Nov 2019 - Dec 2022
A daemon to manage identity, authentication and authorization for centrally-managed systems.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:761 reviews, 123 commits, 97 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Iker primarily focused on improving the SSSD daemon by addressing specific issues related to caching and authentication. They addressed a bug where the system returned multiple objects when only one was expected. Additionally, the user modified the authentication logic, ensuring the correct PAM return codes, and removed unused code to optimize the performance. They demonstrated skills in C programming and debugging, with a focus on security, authentication and system optimization.
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