Miklós Fazekas is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience building high-performance, multithreaded systems and versatile full-stack solutions spanning C++, Ruby, Python and React Native. He blends a strong academic foundation in mathematics and computer science with hands-on expertise in low-latency networking, TCP/IP, and mobile Cocoa development, and has shipped production-grade middleware at firms like Morgan Stanley and Makalu. A long-term freelancer and open-source maintainer, he contributes security and reliability fixes to notable projects such as net-ssh and maintains rnmapbox/maps, demonstrating attention to robustness and real-world interoperability. Equally comfortable with algorithmic challenges and agile practices like TDD, pair programming and DDD, he often bridges backend performance work with frontend and mobile delivery. Based in Hungary, he brings a pragmatic, security-minded approach to complex engineering problems and a track record of improving critical infrastructure libraries.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc, Computer Science, M.Sc, Computer Science at Eötvös Loránd University Of Sciences
MS, Mathematics and Computer Science, MS, Mathematics and Computer Science at Eötvös Loránd University
Pure Ruby implementation of an SSH (protocol 2) client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Contributions:34 reviews, 672 commits, 513 PRs in 13 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Miklós primarily contributed to improving the security and reliability of the `net-ssh/net-ssh` library. Their contributions focused on addressing bugs related to port forwarding, including fixing issues with connection closures and handling exceptions. They implemented exception handling within the core library code and introduced new tests to validate fixes related to key exchange, socket closures, and agent-based authentication.
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