# Alex Asch

> Software Engineer @ Centric Software| MSCS @ University of California, San Diego

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexasch

I am a Masters Student in computer science with a focus on Operating Systems, security, and AI/ML connections to the above fields. I enjoy exploring novel ideas in the AI/ML space as they connect to real world systems and security problems. I am eager to keep learning, and exploring new problems.

I have both an industry and research background, with 2+ years of part time and internship experience, and many research projects, encompassing many fields from operating systems, to AI Agents, to embedded systems. From my current role and my past internships I have experience in both industry full stack development, implementing customer insights from story creation to testing and delivery.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Centric Software
Jan 2024 – Present | California, United States
• Returned in a contract role capacity working in full-stack development in application security.
• Triage, reproduce, and remediate penetration testing findings on the C8 PLM product using Burp Suite and
Postman, working across a stack including WildFly, Node.js, Microsoft SQL Server, and Docker.
• Designed and implemented improved access control framework for finer grained authorization, as well as
authorization over object creation
• Led product wide access control list changes, allowing for finer grained security configuration without regression
impact.
• Refactored login page to a modern React component, and re-configured webpack for authenticated access control and integration with authentication frameworks (OIDC).
• Remediated email REST API endpoint vulnerabilities for phishing prevention and input sanitization.
• Developed a standalone OAuth2 authentication utility using JAX-RS to secure external API integrations, managed
integration into existing C8 PLM product.
• Migrated sensitive codebase secrets to Elytron Vault, ensuring mapping of system properties to vault secrets.
• Worked directly with customers and business consultants to translate requirements into full-stack features, owning implementation from UI to backend services, and customer environment configuration

### Software Engineering Intern, Application Security @ Centric Software
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | California, United States
• Utilized common application security tools including Burp Suite
to reproduce pentest findings
• Identified and repaired security vulnerabilities on the C8 platform
using knowledge of fullstack development
• Triaged and responded to customer security findings and pentest
findings.
• Gained experience across multiple areas of the Centric PLM
product.

### Software Engineer Intern: Application Security @ Centric Software
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | California, United States
• Utilized common application security tools including Burp Suite
to reproduce pentest findings
• Identified and repaired security vulnerabilities on the C8 platform
using knowledge of fullstack development
• Triaged and responded to customer security findings and pentest
findings.
• Gained experience across multiple areas of the Centric PLM
product

### Undergraduate Course Support @ University of California, Santa Cruz
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Santa Clara, California, United States
• Tutored and graded coursework for **Introduction to Computer Networking** (CSE 150) and **Introduction to
Database Systems** (CSE 180)
• Provided code reviews and exam preparation for networking and database systems courses
• Worked with mininet virtual machines to evaluate network topology code
• Reviewed and graded student SQL projects for database systems coursework

### Software Engineer Intern @ Centric Software
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | California, United States
• Refactored legacy Java data-access logic to integrate with a new query template and framework, improving
modularity, maintainability, and code organization.
• Wrote API endpoints and server logic for bill of material management, implementing template based creation and
efficient multi-copy features.
• Collaborated with a full stack Agile team, contributing across the stack to feature delivery and implementation

### Tech4good Annota Dev Team @ Tech4Good @ UCSC
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Santa Cruz, California, United States
• Unpaid Student Research position
• Worked on existing research project to develop software and fix defects with project platform.
• Used Angular framework with Firestore backend to contribute to existing project.
• Familiarized and contributed to project research and design discussions.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Centric Software
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Jose, CA
• Progressed from a QA intern to multi year returning full-stack development intern.
• Wrote API endpoints and server logic for bill of material management, implementing template based creation and efficient multi-copy features.
• Enhanced Dojo UI components to support Bill of Material structure template selection, creation, and copy
management.
• Collaborated with a full stack Agile team, contributing across the stack to feature delivery and implementation
• Gained experience in full-stack development and C8 PLM product development through a full stack training feature implementation.

### QA Intern @ Centric Software
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Jose, CA
• Collaborated with team to setup and work with
common industry tools such as Docker.
• Participated in pre-release smoke tests, validating stories, and communicating edge cases and defect cases to
development teams.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
UC San Diego

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of California, Santa Cruz


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alex-asch-755270219
- Portfolio: https://aasch2020.github.io

---
Source: https://flows.cv/alexasch
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/alexasch/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-11