Slobodan Adamović
Senior Software Engineer at Elastic
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolSlobodan Adamović is a Senior Software Engineer based in Zurich with over a decade of professional experience and four years focused in senior roles, currently contributing to Elastic. He specializes in backend and security engineering, with notable open-source contributions to the high-profile Elasticsearch project improving authentication, API key management, and secure remote cluster connections. Previously he delivered production systems across fintech and industrial automation at Wallee AG and Schneider Electric, bringing pragmatic, security-first thinking to distributed systems. A University of Belgrade computer science graduate, Slobodan blends rigorous engineering with hands-on code fixes that strengthen real-world security posture—often tackling subtle authorization and configuration validation issues that are easy to overlook.
4 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science and Engineering at Univerzitet u Beogradu / University of Belgrade
English, German, Serbian
Github Skills (19)
api-rest10
authorizations10
api-design10
restful-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
it-security10
user-authentication10
authentication10
java10
security10
javas10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
authorization10
elasticsearch10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/elasticsearch
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:600 reviews, 45 commits, 296 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Slobodan primarily worked on improving the security of the Elasticsearch project. Their contributions focused on fixing issues related to authentication, authorization, and the secure configuration of API keys. These changes included refactoring and validating settings, improving code related to API key verification and management, and enhancing security in remote cluster connections, all aimed at improving the security posture of Elasticsearch. They also enhanced the code to better handle workflow and authorization issues.
restfulsearch-engineopensearchelasticsearchjava
slobodanadamovic/elasticsearch
Apr 2022 - Apr 2025
Free and Open, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Contributions:926 pushes, 319 branches, 47 tags in 3 years
restfulsearch-engineopensearchelasticsearchsearch
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