Dan Demeter
Security Researcher at TLPBLACK
Bucharest, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Demeter is a security researcher with 12+ years of experience in malware analysis, threat research and backend systems, most recently joining TLPBLACK after a decade at Kaspersky's GReAT. Trained at Imperial College London, he blends deep academic grounding with hands-on engineering—contributing backend improvements, schema work and API features to notable open-source projects like KasperskyLab/klara. Based in Bucharest, he excels at turning complex security problems into practical, auditable solutions and improving tooling and documentation to make research reproducible. Colleagues know him for quietly finding subtle signals in noisy data—his GitHub tagline “Sometimes passing through the wire” hints at a penchant for low-level, network-aware investigation. He favors pragmatic, reliable fixes over flashy demos and has a track record of bridging research findings into usable system improvements.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, Computing, MEng, Computing at Imperial College LondonColegiul National "Mihai Viteazul"
English, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
php10
apidoc9
api9
sql8
documentation7
threat-hunting5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
KasperskyLab/klara
Mar 2018 - May 2021
Kaspersky's GReAT KLara
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 37 commits, 15 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to back-end aspects of the KLara system, as demonstrated by the code changes. Their work included improving the database schema, updating documentation related to user authentication and system tools, and adding an API endpoint for user management. They also fixed typos and updated installation instructions, showcasing a focus on improving the overall functionality and usability of the system.
kasperskyyara-rulesklarathreat-intelligencethreat-hunting
xdanx/wishlist
Feb 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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