Dmitry Roshchin is an infrastructure security engineer with over 15 years in network and application security and 11 years of focused professional experience across roles from network specialist to infrastructure security lead. He has led security initiatives at Merlion for more than a decade and now secures infrastructure at inDrive, combining pentesting, coding, and hands-on operations. Dmitry contributes to notable open-source tooling—adding memcache injection, reflected file download and cleartext-password-detection plugins to the well-known w3af web vulnerability scanner—underscoring practical expertise in web app vulnerability detection. He is increasingly focused on container security and DevSecOps, applying broad knowledge of security technologies to harden cloud-native environments. Based in Novi Sad, Serbia, he blends deep technical troubleshooting with pragmatic engineering leadership, often turning research findings into production-grade detection capabilities. Colleagues rely on him for tough root-cause analysis and for translating complex attack techniques into actionable defenses.
w3af: web application attack and audit framework, the open source web vulnerability scanner.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Dmitry contributed significantly to the w3af project, a web application security scanner, by implementing a new plugin for memcache injection vulnerabilities and a reflected file download (RFD) vulnerability. They also added a plugin to detect cleartext password submissions. Moreover, the user made changes to existing plugins and unit tests, enhancing the project's ability to identify and assess security weaknesses in web applications. This indicates an active role in improving the framework's vulnerability detection capabilities.
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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Dmitry Roshchin - Infrastructure Security Engineer at inDrive