Anton Kochkov
Lead Vulnerability Researcher at Technology Innovation Institute
Minhang District, Shanghai, China
Summary
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Top SchoolAnton Kochkov is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience in reverse engineering, firmware analysis, and security tooling, having worked at Tencent and NIO to build emulation frameworks, fuzzers, and automated vulnerability scanners. He is an active open-source contributor and core developer on prominent projects in the reverse-engineering ecosystem—contributing to Capstone, radare2, Rizin/Cutter and the Ghidra integration—demonstrating deep multi-architecture expertise across x86/x86_64, ARM, TriCore, MIPS and more. Anton combines low-level systems mastery (BIOS/UEFI, firmware sanitizers and calling convention/type-system work) with build and CI automation skills, including Python wheel packaging and cross-platform CI. Based in Shanghai, he brings a rare blend of security research rigor and full-stack engineering, and his fluency in foreign languages fuels collaboration across global open-source communities.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
specialist, Economics, specialist, Economics at Russian New Universityspecialist, Chemistry, specialist, Chemistry at Voronezh State University
English, Russian, Chinese
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Github Skills (63)
git10
graph-algorithms10
parser10
ghidra10
c-language10
qt10
dis10
scripting10
graph10
c1110
travis-ci10
graph-database10
cicd10
ocaml10
c1710
Programming languages (66)
Github contributions (5)
rizinorg/rz-ghidra
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Deep ghidra decompiler and sleigh disassembler integration for rizin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Systems Engineer
Back-end Developer / Systems EngineerContributions:1 release, 29 reviews, 19 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Anton primarily contributed to the integration of the Ghidra decompiler and sleigh disassembler within the rizin framework. Their work involved renaming project components, modifying core files for rizin and Ghidra integration. They also added CI scripts for Windows. Further contributions include fixes for string encoding and rizin version updates.
decompilerghidrasleighdisassemblerrizin
rizinorg/cutter
Dec 2019 - Nov 2022
Free and Open Source Reverse Engineering Platform powered by rizin
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 236 reviews, 41 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Anton primarily contributed to the Cutter reverse engineering platform by refactoring and updating its codebase. They made significant changes related to the core functionality and API, specifically switching the decompiler from `r2dec` to `jsdec`. They also updated the Rizin version and fixed several issues, demonstrating a strong understanding of the project's architecture and underlying reverse engineering concepts. Furthermore, they enhanced the UI with the addition of a "Globals" widget and menu integrations.
reverse-engineeringcutterguisecuritydebugger
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