Michael Tcherniack
R&D Tech Lead at Fireblocks
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMichael Tcherniack is an R&D Tech Lead with 8 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native security and performance tooling, currently leading R&D at Fireblocks from London. He specializes in Linux eBPF and low-level systems work—contributing to notable open-source projects like aquasecurity/tracee by extending syscall tracing, event argument parsing, and adding file-hashing security features. Previously at Aqua Security he architected high-performance C++ and Go agents and an in-memory Kubernetes monitoring engine, delivering major stability and performance gains for production environments. His background at Intel adds experience in CAD and cross-tool data infrastructure for processor analysis, reflecting a strong foundation in systems engineering and measurable impact. Known for leading by example, he mentors engineers while staying deeply technical, blending kernel-level expertise with product-focused security outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (11)
golang10
linux10
run-time10
go10
ebpf10
bpf10
security10
dockers7
kubernetes-pods7
docker7
kubernetes7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aquasecurity/tracee
Jan 2021 - Jun 2022
Linux Runtime Security and Forensics using eBPF
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:223 reviews, 32 commits, 49 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to the `aquasecurity/tracee` repository, a Linux runtime security and forensics tool built using eBPF. Their work included adding arguments to events and supporting new syscalls, which involved modifying core components related to event handling and system call tracing. They also addressed bugs, improved code related to argument parsing, and added security-related functionality like file hashing, enhancing the tool's capabilities.
bpfgolangsecurity-toolssecurityruntime
mtcherni95/Counting-Polyominoes
Oct 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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