Miklós Fazekas
Software Developer at Toptal
Gyenesdiás, Transdanubia, Hungary
Summary
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Top SchoolMiklós Fazekas is a software developer with 17 years of experience building high-performance, networked systems and native iOS software from Gyenesdiás, Hungary. He combines low-level C++ and multithreading expertise with pragmatic Ruby and Python work, and favors agile practices like TDD, pair programming and domain-driven design. An active open-source maintainer and contributor (notably net-ssh and rnmapbox/maps), he has driven security- and reliability-focused fixes at the protocol level, including port-forwarding, key exchange and agent-authentication hardening. His background in mathematics and computer science fuels a readiness to tackle non-trivial algorithms and protocol problems, and he balances freelance flexibility with production experience across finance and product teams.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc, Computer Science, M.Sc, Computer Science at Eötvös Loránd University Of SciencesMS, Mathematics and Computer Science, MS, Mathematics and Computer Science at Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
Github Skills (9)
ruby10
unit-testing10
exception-handling10
port-forwarding10
test-unit10
unit-test10
testing10
networking9
security9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
net-ssh/net-ssh
Feb 2010 - Jan 2023
Pure Ruby implementation of an SSH (protocol 2) client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions: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.
ssh-protocolsshpure-rubyruby
mfazekas/maps
Apr 2019 - Mar 2022
A Mapbox GL react native module for creating custom maps
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 11 months
reactreact-mapbox-glreact-native-modulemapboxreact-native
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