Jafar Akhoundali is a versatile full-stack developer and cybersecurity researcher based in the Netherlands with a decade of hands-on experience building secure, user-facing tooling and backend systems. He has contributed to notable open-source projects like mongo-express—hardening its security and fixing XSS and MongoDB query bugs—and enhanced browser integration and UI features for the Persepolis download manager. With a background that spans production work at Mofid Securities and advanced academic training toward a PhD in cybersecurity at Leiden University, he blends practical engineering with deep security awareness. Colleagues would describe him as broadly skilled across the stack, comfortable fixing subtle configuration and compatibility issues that often slip past tests.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Master of Science - MS, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Shiraz University
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Shahid Chamran University
PhD, Cyber security, PhD, Cyber security at Leiden University
Web-based MongoDB admin interface, written with Node.js and Express
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1 release, 8 commits, 4 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jafar primarily focused on improving the stability and security of the mongo-express application. Their contributions include fixing invalid configuration default values and resolving a MongoDB query options bug caused by a breaking change. Furthermore, the user addressed several XSS vulnerabilities within the application and made improvements to the display of data, enhancing the security of dynamically loaded content.
Contributions:27 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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