Lakatos Attila
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Brno, South Moravia, Czechia
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Top SchoolLakatos Attila is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat with nine years of hands-on experience in C, C++ and Python, known for a pragmatic "get things done" approach to complex system problems. He has progressed through engineering roles at Red Hat from intern to senior engineer, pairing practical delivery with an academic grounding—a Master’s in Information Systems and Databases from Brno University of Technology. Attila is an active open-source contributor, notably enhancing USBGuard’s policy and security model and fixing critical bugs in rsyslog, demonstrating deep expertise in Linux system security and logging. He combines backend and DevOps sensibilities to improve robustness, IPC permissions and daemonization/privilege integrations in production-grade projects. Colleagues rely on him for reliable, security-minded improvements that balance practicality with careful attention to edge cases. Less obvious but telling: he routinely augments tests and resource-handling logic, showing a focus on long-term maintainability beyond feature work.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Systems and Databases, Master's degree, Information Systems and Databases at Brno University of Technology
Hungarian, English, Slovak
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Github Skills (32)
syslog10
security-hardening10
linux10
c-programming10
c1110
security10
c1710
cplus10
usb-devices10
system-administration10
logging10
cpp10
blacklist9
ipc9
usb9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
USBGuard/usbguard
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
USBGuard is a software framework for implementing USB device authorization policies (what kind of USB devices are authorized) as well as method of use policies (how a USB device may interact with the system)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:34 reviews, 24 commits, 68 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Lakatos significantly enhanced the USBGuard framework by extending the functionality of the allow/block/reject commands to work with rules, improving the flexibility of device authorization policies. They addressed critical aspects of policy management, including handling rule sets and file loading, and ensured robustness through improvements like checking device existence before policy changes. Furthermore, they focused on enhancing security by adding checks for IPC permissions and addressing potential vulnerabilities related to daemonization and seccomp/libcap-ng integration. The user's contributions involved modifications across multiple files and added a new test case.
software-frameworkauthorizationsecuritymethodlinux
rsyslog/rsyslog
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
a Rocket-fast SYStem for LOG processing
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 17 commits, 44 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Lakatos primarily contributed to the rsyslog project by implementing various bug fixes and improvements. They addressed issues related to file descriptor handling, GnuTLS integration, and the use of `inet_aton()` over `inet_addr()`. Furthermore, the user made changes to facilitate ratelimiting and optimized the deallocation of resources. Additionally, the commits show modifications to improve testing and clarify the meaning of `loadConf` and `runConf`.
syslogloggingrocketelasticsearchkafka
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