Peter Skopek
Brno, Southeast, Slovakia
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RockstarPeter Skopek is a backend-focused Java engineer with 14 years of experience based in Brno, Slovakia, and a Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform (2005). He is an active open-source contributor to high-profile projects like Keycloak and WildFly, where he has strengthened SAML processing, credential store handling, and security-focused features in the core runtime and Elytron framework. His work shows a pattern of fixing subtle protocol and encoding bugs (SAML AnyType/nil handling, SASL base64/unicode issues, Digest-MD5 nonce/count) and hardening audit/logging and credential handling for production safety. Peter combines deep protocol-level expertise with practical improvements to thread-safety and test coverage, making systems more robust and secure in real-world deployments. An experienced backend engineer who prefers tackling intricate security and interoperability challenges rather than flashy front-end work.
14 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (18)
authorizations10
saml10
testing10
user-authentication10
authentication10
sasl10
java10
security10
base64-encoding10
javas10
arq10
audit-logging10
wildfly10
authorization10
xml10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wildfly-security/wildfly-elytron
May 2014 - Oct 2017
WildFly Elytron: Security, Authentication, and Authorization SPIs for the WildFly project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:232 commits, 92 PRs, 54 pushes in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the security aspects of the WildFly Elytron project, focusing on authentication and authorization. They fixed unicode escape errors and base64 encoding/decoding issues within the SASL framework. Additionally, the user implemented test cases for SASL functions and refactored code related to Digest-MD5 mechanism, addressing nonce count problems, quote handling, and adding integrity/confidentiality support. The user's work included the implementation of several features related to the security of the Elytron project.
wildflyauthorizationsecurityauthenticationelytron
keycloak/keycloak
Sep 2017 - Oct 2022
Open Source Identity and Access Management For Modern Applications and Services
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:91 reviews, 36 commits, 56 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on enhancing the Keycloak SAML 2.0 functionality. Their contributions included supporting `AnyType` and `nil` attribute values within SAML assertions. They also made changes to schema location handling, ensuring the correct resolution of XML schemas, and removing deprecated methods. These modifications indicate a focus on improving SAML processing and overall stability of the Keycloak platform.
oidcauthorizationidentity-and-access-managementaccess-managementsecurity
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