Leonid Baraz
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Kirkland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolLeonid Baraz is a Senior Software Engineer with over 7 years of recent experience and a long-standing career spanning roles at Google, Microsoft, and Intel. Based in Kirkland, Washington, he focuses on backend development and security engineering, contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Google’s Asylo where he improved error and status-handling macros to boost code clarity and maintainability. He brings deep systems and security sensibilities from decades in industry combined with formal graduate training from Ural State University and Novosibirsk State University. Known for pragmatic refactors that reduce complexity, he favors small, high-impact changes that improve developer ergonomics and system robustness. Colleagues rely on him for steady, security-minded engineering on critical platform code.
7 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, MSc at Ural State University named after A.M.GorkyMaster's degree, Master's degree at Novosibirsk State University (NSU)
English, Russian, Hebrew, Polish
Github Skills (5)
macros10
error-handling10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
security9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
google/asylo
Jul 2018 - Jan 2020
An open and flexible framework for developing enclave applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:73 commits, 7 pushes, 2 issues in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Leonid primarily focused on implementing and refactoring utility macros, specifically related to status handling and error management within the Asylo framework. They introduced convenience macros for handling `Status` and `StatusOr` objects, significantly simplifying code and improving readability. The commits demonstrate a focus on improving code quality, security, and maintainability by utilizing specific status and error handling patterns.
trusted-execution-environmentdevelopingteeflexible-frameworkconfidential-computing
google/mako
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Mako - A performance testing library and service
Contributions:1 comment, 1 issue in 1 day
testingmakobenchmarkperformanceperformance-testing
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