Lagovas Lagovas
Software Engineer at cossacklabs
Kyiv, Ukraine
Summary
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RockstarLagovas Lagovas is a Kyiv-based software engineer with 10 years of experience focused on backend systems and application security. He is an active contributor to cossacklabs/acra, a notable open-source database security suite, where he implemented PostgreSQL query handling improvements and tightened secure session and encryption routines. His work balances practical refactoring with security-first fixes—addressing edge cases like invalid packet handling to reduce vulnerabilities. Comfortable working deep in encryption libraries (Themis) and database proxies, he brings a pragmatic developer’s eye to hardening data-in-use and in-transit. Colleagues can expect a steady engineer who blends production-focused code changes with measurable security impact.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (4)
go10
security10
cryptography9
postgresql9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cossacklabs/acra
Nov 2016 - Jan 2023
Database security suite. Database proxy with field-level encryption, search through encrypted data, SQL injections prevention, intrusion detection, honeypots. Supports client-side and proxy-side ("transparent") encryption. SQL, NoSQL.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:6 releases, 579 reviews, 438 commits in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Lagovas primarily worked on refactoring and implementing features within the security suite, with changes focused on enhanced PostgreSQL query handling and secure session handling. Their commits include improvements to the underlying data encryption and decryption routines using Themis, which are related to the core functionality of Acra's security features. They also addressed potential security vulnerabilities by modifying the handling of invalid values and packets, emphasizing the user's focus on maintaining the security of Acra's database proxy.
proxydatabase-proxydjangoencryption-serverintrusion-detection
Lagovas/mysql-connector-python
Jun 2018 - Dec 2022
MySQL Connector/Python is implementing the MySQL Client/Server protocol completely in Python. No MySQL libraries are needed, and no compilation is necessary to run this Python DB API v2.0 compliant driver. Documentation & Download: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-python/en
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 4 years 6 months
apicompilationpythonmysqldev
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