Peter Balogh
Senior Security Engineer at Riptides
Budapest, Hungary
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Balogh is a Senior Security Engineer based in Budapest with over a decade of experience building and securing cloud-native infrastructure, spanning roles from infrastructure and automation to engineering leadership at Cisco and Banzai Cloud. He combines deep Linux and DevSecOps expertise with hands-on backend and operator work—contributing to notable open-source projects like bank-vaults and the Kafka operator koperator, where he enhanced dynamic secret injection and Prometheus alert handling. Peter is experienced in container security and image-scanning APIs, and he has a track record of applying automation (Ansible, Kubernetes) to harden and scale platforms in hybrid environments. His background in electrical engineering and long tenure in government and defense systems adds a systems-level perspective to security engineering and resilience.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Electrical and Electronics Engineering Industrial Monitoring and Communication Systems, Master of Science (MSc) Electrical and Electronics Engineering Industrial Monitoring and Communication Systems at Obuda UniversityMathematics and Physics, Mathematics and Physics at Váci Madách Imre GimnáziumBachelor of Science (BSc) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Zrínyi Miklós National Defence University
Hungarian, English
Github Skills (31)
container-management10
api-rest10
kubernetes10
docker10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
alertdialog10
alertview10
alerts10
dockers10
secrets10
security10
go10
prometheus10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bank-vaults/bank-vaults
Feb 2019 - Apr 2022
A Vault swiss-army knife: A CLI tool to init, unseal and configure Vault (auth methods, secret engines).
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 releases, 165 reviews, 96 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Peter contributed to the `bank-vaults/bank-vaults` repository by implementing and modifying features within the `cmd/vault-secrets-webhook/main.go` file. Their work involved enhancing the webhook's functionality to integrate with Kubernetes secrets, configmaps and consul template for dynamic secret injection. The commits also include adding and modifying functionalities related to Docker config, as well as refactoring existing code. Furthermore, the user made code changes to enhance the operator's statsd feature.
gcpvelerodcosinjectionhelm-chart
banzaicloud/pipeline
Oct 2018 - Oct 2022
Banzai Cloud Pipeline is a solution-oriented application platform which allows enterprises to develop, deploy and securely scale container-based applications in multi- and hybrid-cloud environments.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:63 reviews, 134 commits, 115 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Peter contributed significantly to the `banzaicloud/pipeline` project, primarily focused on implementing features related to image scanning and security. They added an imagescan API, which involved creating API endpoints for retrieving vulnerabilities and scan results, demonstrating a focus on security integrations within the platform. Further contributions involved implementing APIs for listing images by cluster and deployment, indicating experience with container management and deployment automation, likely using Go and Kubernetes.
application-platformcontainer-managementhybrid-cloudmonitoringpipeline
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