
Hedi Tarchouni engineered robust access control, automation, and reliability features for the OpenBAS-Platform/openbas repository, focusing on scalable RBAC systems, granular permission APIs, and automated asset assignment. He designed and implemented backend services in Java and Spring Boot, integrating database migrations and RESTful APIs to support evolving business logic, while also enhancing frontend workflows with React and TypeScript. His work included cross-platform deployment automation, health check endpoints, and notification systems, addressing both operational stability and governance. By coupling test-driven development with CI/CD automation, Hedi delivered maintainable, well-documented solutions that improved auditability, onboarding, and error handling across the platform.

Monthly summary for 2025-10: Key reliability and scalability improvements across injector management, starter-pack onboarding, and observability. Delivered a fixes-driven update to inject status reporting, introduced a Starter Pack Import System with a dedicated injector service, and expanded health checks to cover NMAP and Nuclei injectors. These changes enhance stability, onboarding efficiency, and operational visibility, enabling faster feature delivery and reduced downtime.
Monthly summary for 2025-10: Key reliability and scalability improvements across injector management, starter-pack onboarding, and observability. Delivered a fixes-driven update to inject status reporting, introduced a Starter Pack Import System with a dedicated injector service, and expanded health checks to cover NMAP and Nuclei injectors. These changes enhance stability, onboarding efficiency, and operational visibility, enabling faster feature delivery and reduced downtime.
September 2025 monthly summary for OpenBAS development: Focused RBAC modernization and enforcement across the OpenBAS platform, enhancements to simulation access UX, API-backed linkage of dashboards to simulations and scenarios, seeded default RBAC roles, and cleanup of RBAC constraints to align with business needs. Expanded error visibility with OpenAEV integration for implant errors. These efforts delivered stronger access control, safer data sharing for dashboards, improved operator experience, and clearer error diagnosis for faster remediation.
September 2025 monthly summary for OpenBAS development: Focused RBAC modernization and enforcement across the OpenBAS platform, enhancements to simulation access UX, API-backed linkage of dashboards to simulations and scenarios, seeded default RBAC roles, and cleanup of RBAC constraints to align with business needs. Expanded error visibility with OpenAEV integration for implant errors. These efforts delivered stronger access control, safer data sharing for dashboards, improved operator experience, and clearer error diagnosis for faster remediation.
OpenBAS platform – August 2025: Delivered a comprehensive RBAC-enabled access control system and a new User Grants API. Refactored the Grant enum to include priority levels and integrated RBAC checks across API endpoints. Introduced annotations and aspects to enforce permissions, with controller-level enforcement ensuring correct access across backend and frontend. This work lays the foundation for scalable, fine-grained permissions and strengthens security posture while enabling compliant, role-driven access for users and services.
OpenBAS platform – August 2025: Delivered a comprehensive RBAC-enabled access control system and a new User Grants API. Refactored the Grant enum to include priority levels and integrated RBAC checks across API endpoints. Introduced annotations and aspects to enforce permissions, with controller-level enforcement ensuring correct access across backend and frontend. This work lays the foundation for scalable, fine-grained permissions and strengthens security posture while enabling compliant, role-driven access for users and services.
For 2025-07, OpenBAS-Platform/openbas delivered two high-impact changes that strengthen auditability, data integrity, and operational reliability. 1) Role Audit Trail: Added created_at and updated_at timestamps to roles and updated the API to include these timestamps in role representations, enhancing traceability of role modifications (commit 7547a186045e04fd49e016f0421730dca2068433). 2) Payload Update Persistence Bug Fix: Resolved a persistence issue when updating detection remediations within payloads by introducing an explicit EntityManager to manage payload object persistence, and added tests to validate post-creation updates (commit 0f4fda3b3d12288e9d8a656b19e3f97a52ed7722). These changes improve data integrity, auditability, and reliability across remediation workflows.
For 2025-07, OpenBAS-Platform/openbas delivered two high-impact changes that strengthen auditability, data integrity, and operational reliability. 1) Role Audit Trail: Added created_at and updated_at timestamps to roles and updated the API to include these timestamps in role representations, enhancing traceability of role modifications (commit 7547a186045e04fd49e016f0421730dca2068433). 2) Payload Update Persistence Bug Fix: Resolved a persistence issue when updating detection remediations within payloads by introducing an explicit EntityManager to manage payload object persistence, and added tests to validate post-creation updates (commit 0f4fda3b3d12288e9d8a656b19e3f97a52ed7722). These changes improve data integrity, auditability, and reliability across remediation workflows.
June 2025 monthly summary for OpenBAS-Platform/openbas focused on delivering foundational security, content initialization, and UX reliability enhancements, with a clear path to scale onboarding and governance. Delivered four key items: default content population for new injects from the injector contract (with tests), RBAC system enhancements for more granular access control, a dashboard layout synchronization fix to ensure UI consistency, and a new permission system for scenarios and simulations providing finer-grained grant types.
June 2025 monthly summary for OpenBAS-Platform/openbas focused on delivering foundational security, content initialization, and UX reliability enhancements, with a clear path to scale onboarding and governance. Delivered four key items: default content population for new injects from the injector contract (with tests), RBAC system enhancements for more granular access control, a dashboard layout synchronization fix to ensure UI consistency, and a new permission system for scenarios and simulations providing finer-grained grant types.
May 2025 highlights two cross-repo initiatives: expanded scenario data export with richer attack-pattern context and reliability improvements for Windows CMD command execution in the implant module, accompanied by regression testing. Key features delivered, major bugs fixed, and business value summarized below.
May 2025 highlights two cross-repo initiatives: expanded scenario data export with richer attack-pattern context and reliability improvements for Windows CMD command execution in the implant module, accompanied by regression testing. Key features delivered, major bugs fixed, and business value summarized below.
Delivered a focused Notification System for Simulation Score Degradations and Rules in OpenBAS (April 2025). Implemented a backend-driven framework to manage notification rules, a score-degradation alert subsystem, and email notifications for degradations. The system supports a robust CRUD API, a dedicated database schema for rules, and automatic cleanup when scenarios are deleted, enabling proactive monitoring and faster remediation of degraded simulations.
Delivered a focused Notification System for Simulation Score Degradations and Rules in OpenBAS (April 2025). Implemented a backend-driven framework to manage notification rules, a score-degradation alert subsystem, and email notifications for degradations. The system supports a robust CRUD API, a dedicated database schema for rules, and automatic cleanup when scenarios are deleted, enabling proactive monitoring and faster remediation of degraded simulations.
March 2025 monthly summary for OpenBAS platform and agent. Key features delivered include: (1) Inject creation/update stability fixes in OpenBAS core, ensuring pristineOpenDetails initialization and safe handling of empty content when creating injects; (2) Inject reports list now sorts chronologically by execution date with safe handling for undefined dates; (3) Windows installer variants and cross-platform consistency for the OpenBAS agent, including service-user and session-user installer scripts, CI publishing of installers to Artifactory, and installer documentation.
March 2025 monthly summary for OpenBAS platform and agent. Key features delivered include: (1) Inject creation/update stability fixes in OpenBAS core, ensuring pristineOpenDetails initialization and safe handling of empty content when creating injects; (2) Inject reports list now sorts chronologically by execution date with safe handling for undefined dates; (3) Windows installer variants and cross-platform consistency for the OpenBAS agent, including service-user and session-user installer scripts, CI publishing of installers to Artifactory, and installer documentation.
February 2025 – OpenBAS platform: Delivered core enhancements to the manual injection workflow, expanded planner visibility, and improved deployment automation. Key outcomes include: structured expectations and API simplification for Manual Injects via InjectExpectationService; planner role read access to inject results; and Linux installer/upgrade scripts for service and session users with CircleCI artifact uploads. No critical bugs reported this month. These efforts reduce input complexity, enhance governance and planning visibility, and accelerate onboarding and deployment reliability. Technologies demonstrated: backend API design and service-oriented refactoring, role-based access control, CI/CD automation, and Linux scripting for installer workflows.
February 2025 – OpenBAS platform: Delivered core enhancements to the manual injection workflow, expanded planner visibility, and improved deployment automation. Key outcomes include: structured expectations and API simplification for Manual Injects via InjectExpectationService; planner role read access to inject results; and Linux installer/upgrade scripts for service and session users with CircleCI artifact uploads. No critical bugs reported this month. These efforts reduce input complexity, enhance governance and planning visibility, and accelerate onboarding and deployment reliability. Technologies demonstrated: backend API design and service-oriented refactoring, role-based access control, CI/CD automation, and Linux scripting for installer workflows.
January 2025 highlights for OpenBAS Platform: Delivered end-to-end Tag Rules and Asset Group Automation and stabilized external inject execution with UI improvements. This work spanned database migrations for tag_rules and tag_rule_asset_groups, REST APIs for CRUD tag rules, and frontend-backend integration to automatically apply assets based on tags during scenario creation. Major commits touched across backend and frontend to ship Issue/1998 (f257e8ed, 21d1822e, a7343f0e, 603fec18, 4dc5a1ce) and injected stability improvements for Issue/2220 and UI refinements for Issue/1642 (3854057, b5431369, ea7f3b15). The result is automated, tag-driven asset assignment, reduced manual configuration, and a more reliable inject workflow with clearer results display.
January 2025 highlights for OpenBAS Platform: Delivered end-to-end Tag Rules and Asset Group Automation and stabilized external inject execution with UI improvements. This work spanned database migrations for tag_rules and tag_rule_asset_groups, REST APIs for CRUD tag rules, and frontend-backend integration to automatically apply assets based on tags during scenario creation. Major commits touched across backend and frontend to ship Issue/1998 (f257e8ed, 21d1822e, a7343f0e, 603fec18, 4dc5a1ce) and injected stability improvements for Issue/2220 and UI refinements for Issue/1642 (3854057, b5431369, ea7f3b15). The result is automated, tag-driven asset assignment, reduced manual configuration, and a more reliable inject workflow with clearer results display.
December 2024 monthly summary for OpenBAS platform development. Delivered core reliability improvements and governance enhancements across backend, implant, and frontend, driving measurable business value through increased system visibility, stability, and testing discipline. Key outcomes include a health check endpoint for proactive health visibility; robust multi-agent endpoint mapping fix to prevent cross-agent misrouting; enforced bug-fix test coverage via PR templates across all OpenBAS repos; UI layout alignment fix for injects; and enhanced command execution and PowerShell I/O handling in implant, improving reliability of automated tasks and data decoding.
December 2024 monthly summary for OpenBAS platform development. Delivered core reliability improvements and governance enhancements across backend, implant, and frontend, driving measurable business value through increased system visibility, stability, and testing discipline. Key outcomes include a health check endpoint for proactive health visibility; robust multi-agent endpoint mapping fix to prevent cross-agent misrouting; enforced bug-fix test coverage via PR templates across all OpenBAS repos; UI layout alignment fix for injects; and enhanced command execution and PowerShell I/O handling in implant, improving reliability of automated tasks and data decoding.
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