Roland Bogosi
Senior Security Engineer at Lateral Inc.
Târgu Mureș, Mureș, Romania
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Top SchoolRoland Bogosi is a Senior Security Engineer with 15 years of experience based in Târgu Mureș, Romania, combining hands-on software development and deep security expertise. At Lateral Inc. he serves as the go-to specialist for security code reviews, penetration testing, incident response and compliance across GDPR/PCI/HIPAA while also incubating and shipping research-driven products. His background as a freelance full-stack engineer includes scaling high-traffic sites, re-architecting systems for performance, and creative scraping and anti-scraping solutions. An active maintainer of tooling such as a WSL distribution switcher, he blends low-level systems work with pragmatic automation to simplify cross-platform developer workflows. Practical, client-facing, and technically curious, he often operates as a one-man security arm delivering measurable risk reduction and production-ready fixes.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) (Hons.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) (Hons.), Computer Engineering at Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania
English, Hungarian, Romanian
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Github Skills (21)
filesystem10
python10
scripting10
bash10
file-operations10
script10
fileio10
sh10
windows-subsystem-for-linux10
image-management10
shell10
tar9
squashfs9
mysql-connector6
php6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
RoliSoft/WSL-Distribution-Switcher
Aug 2016 - Jan 2022
Scripts to replace the distribution behind Windows Subsystem for Linux with any other Linux distribution published on Docker Hub.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1 review, 72 commits in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Roland was primarily responsible for developing and enhancing the `wsl-distribution-switcher` project. They implemented the core functionality for installing and switching between different Linux distributions within the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Their work included modifying the installation script (`install.py`) to handle various archive formats (tar, squashfs) and incorporating features such as user persistence and post-install hooks. Moreover, the user contributed to the download script (`get.py`) with parsing fixes, and developed the `get-prebuilt.py` and `get-source.py` to download prebuilt images.
dockerhublinux-distributionwindowswindows-subsystem-for-linux
RoliSoft/Bank-Security-Audit
Jun 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:18 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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