Dmitry Danilov
Chief Product Officer at Social Links
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolDmitry Danilov is a Chief Product Officer and OSINT specialist with eight years of hands-on experience in cybersecurity, product leadership, and software development. He built and led OSINT communities and training programs, authored the notable Maigret username-checking tool, and contributed backend and deployment fixes that improved its site data handling and proxy support. At Social Links he established a Center of Excellence that combines investigations, tool development, and training, and previously led security teams and antifraud efforts at Avito and METASCAN. Dmitry blends engineering craftsmanship (DevOps, backend fixes, automated test roots) with strategic product management and public speaking at international conferences. Based in Amsterdam, he quietly pairs technical problem-solving with community building—training both cybersec students and private investigators in practical OSINT tradecraft.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Southwest State University (former Kursk State Technical University)
English, Ukrainian, Chinese, Russian
Github Skills (9)
back-end-development10
python10
dependency-management9
security8
devops8
osi7
cicd7
open-source7
packaging7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
soxoj/maigret
Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
🕵️♂️ Collect a dossier on a person by username from thousands of sites
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:25 releases, 5 reviews, 485 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Dmitry primarily contributed to the back-end functionality, including site loading fixes and improvements to the site data handling. Their contributions involved packaging and deployment-related changes via setup.py. The user also addressed loop closed errors and made enhancements to the self-checking base. Furthermore, the user added fixes for proxies and other general enhancements to the project.
investigationpythonnamecheckersocmintosint
soxoj/osint-namecheckers-list
Jul 2020 - Feb 2022
A list of tools to search accounts by username
Contributions:21 commits, 3 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 7 months
osintsocial-networksusername-checkerusername-search
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