AleksandrĀ Pilgun
Product Developer at Debloat.App
Portugal
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Top SchoolAleksandr Pilgun is a product-driven security researcher and software engineer with a PhD in Computer Science and over a decade of experience focused on Android app instrumentation, shrinking, and vulnerability detection. He currently leads product development and R&D at Debloat.App, where he has driven product-market fit work and filed a patent for related technology. His background spans reverse engineering and malware analysis for financial and security-focused projects, with hands-on experience bypassing advanced defenses and improving integration speed. During his doctoral work he built ACVTool, an instruction-coverage tool for Android that influenced testing and app shrinking techniques now reflected in his "shrinking Android apps" work. Comfortable moving between research and product delivery, he has taught security topics and contributed systematic methods for detecting deserialization vulnerabilities. Based in Portugal, Aleksandr blends academic rigor with pragmatic product instincts to turn deep reverse-engineering expertise into user-focused security products.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Information Security Hardware and Software, Master's degree Information Security Hardware and Software at Belarusian State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Luxembourg
English, Russian, Russian, French, Luxembourgish
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Github contributions (5)
pilgun/acvtool
Oct 2018 - Jul 2022
ACVTool (Android Code Coverage Tool) is a tool to measure fine-grained code coverage of 3rd-party Android apps.
Contributions:3 releases, 11 commits, 5 PRs in 3 years 9 months
xposedpythonmeasure3rd-partybinary-coverage
pilgun/app-run-and-log
Jan 2018 - Nov 2019
A simple Android app executer. Installs an application, starts main activity or runs monkey and reports crashes. It helps to automatically/manually check a set of applications if they crash or not.
Contributions:1 release, 41 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 10 months
emulatorandroid-appsandroidandroid-developmentandroid-application
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