Michael Kozono
Staff Software Engineer at GitLab
United States
Summary
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RockstarMichael Kozono is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience focused on backend engineering, DevOps, and reliability at GitLab, where he contributes to critical open-source projects used by millions. He specializes in securing developer workflows and improving database and geo-replication tooling—work that includes redacting exposed credentials in Git operations and enhancing PostgreSQL FDW and DB user management in the Omnibus stack. Comfortable across engineering and QA, he blends pragmatic code changes with test-suite improvements to raise overall system quality. Colleagues rely on him for tough infrastructure work that quietly prevents outages and data exposure while enabling large-scale GitLab deployments.
13 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (20)
git10
postgresql10
gitlab-omnibus10
testing10
database-administration10
ruby10
devops10
ruby-rails9
security9
rails9
chef-client9
chef-solo9
gitlab9
rspec8
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gitlabhq/gitlabhq
Feb 2017 - Sep 2019
GitLab CE Mirror | Please open new issues in our issue tracker on GitLab.com
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:732 commits, 20 pushes, 19 tags in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Michael's commits focused on improving the quality and reliability of the GitLab codebase. They primarily addressed issues related to authentication credentials exposure in git output. The user implemented code changes to redact credentials from URIs in various Git operations such as cloning and pushing, improving overall security. Furthermore, they added tests and made test suite improvements to enhance the reliability of the code base.
gitlab-cerubygitlabrails
gitlabhq/omnibus-gitlab
Jun 2017 - Apr 2020
GitLab Omnibus Mirror | Please open new issues in our issue tracker on GitLab.com
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:69 commits, 16 pushes, 32 tags in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the GitLab Omnibus project by enhancing PostgreSQL-related functionalities. They implemented features to manage Foreign Data Wrappers (FDW), including password handling and options updates, improving database integration. The user also added features to the geo-replication command and enabled the ability to set a DB user password. Furthermore, the user has modified recipes to support new settings like `geo_node_name` and `rack_attack_admin_area_protected_paths`.
gitlab-omnibus
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