Experience

EDU. A degree smarter

• Malta
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• System Administrator

  • Dec 2019 - Present

  Managed the Office365 tenant for all back-office staff, external freelancers and students.Administered dozens of external and internal services hosted on Google Cloud Platform, in addition to critical infrastructure for DNS, firewalls, monitoring and alerting.Deployed custom load balancers for more fine-grained control over routing between services, with hardened configs for DDoS mitigation and security.Implemented and documented backup strategies for all virtual machines, databases and cloud configurations.



SSE Secure Systems Engineering

• Germany
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• IT Security Engineer

  • Apr 2019 - Oct 2019

  Implemented NodeJS package dependency vulnerability scanning into CI/CD pipelines for 40+ micro-services. Researched and implemented additional SonarQube rules to strengthen vulnerability and code-smell detection during build-time.Performed code reviews of individual Java and Typescript code-bases, as well as manual scanning with find-sec-bugs and the OWASP Dependency checker. Audited all repositories with trufflehog and git-secrets in order to reveal sensitive commits, such as api keys and tokens.Performed research and testing of static, dynamic and interactive application security tools. Compiled and presented extensive documentation ranking a variety of SaaS vendors and standalone tools based on criteria such as OWASP coverage, ease of integration, and true/false positive discovery.



https://rpavlov.com

• Consultant

  • Jan 2016 - Apr 2019

  Provided all manner of software development and infrastructure support to organizations such as https://thecouncil.on.ca, https://qoints.com and https://bitmakerlabs.com Provided all manner of software development and infrastructure support to organizations such as https://thecouncil.on.ca, https://qoints.com and https://bitmakerlabs.com



Tickit Health

• Canada
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software developer

  • Sep 2013 - Sep 2015

  Created a javascript web & mobile application for administering clinical surveys. Extended and maintained the backing Rails infrastructure and servers. Created a javascript web & mobile application for administering clinical surveys. Extended and maintained the backing Rails infrastructure and servers.



Think Research

• Canada
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Software Developer

  • May 2011 - Jun 2012

  Feature development, testing and maintenance of a medical document parser. The tool served as a CMS for Order-set documents, also allowing for editing, version control and sharing across hospitals and clinics. Feature development, testing and maintenance of a medical document parser. The tool served as a CMS for Order-set documents, also allowing for editing, version control and sharing across hospitals and clinics.



Field iD (Alcumus)

• Canada
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Developer

  • Mar 2010 - Apr 2011

  Feature development, testing and maintenance of an asset management and inspection scheduling system. FieldID was composed of a Java Spring framework backend, user interface, and a C# mobile application. Feature development, testing and maintenance of an asset management and inspection scheduling system. FieldID was composed of a Java Spring framework backend, user interface, and a C# mobile application.