Elias Bachaalany
Founder at Freelancing
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElias Bachaalany is a founder and veteran software security engineer with over 12 years of hands-on experience securing Windows software and game clients for Microsoft and major studios. He specializes in reverse engineering malware, Windows drivers, and cheat programs, and has a track record of turning nuanced security bugs into mitigations or even game features, as with StarCraft Remastered. A long-time contributor to IDA Pro and the maintainer of IDAPython fixes, Elias blends deep tooling expertise with practical training and consulting through his company PassingTheKnowledge. He’s co-authored Practical Reverse Engineering and The Antivirus Hacker’s Handbook and authored Batchography, reflecting a commitment to teaching the craft. His background includes building EMET mitigations, writing IDA plugins like Bochs and WinDbg integrations, and publishing popular open-source repos and YouTube content for reverse engineers. Based in Redmond, he combines enterprise security delivery with independent research and community-focused tooling.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at American University of Science and Technology
English, Arabic, French, German
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Github Skills (11)
debug10
reverse-engineering10
python10
ida10
windows8
bochs6
php6
macos6
assembly6
executable6
explode6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
idapython/src
Mar 2015 - Jan 2023
IDAPython project for Hex-Ray's IDA Pro
Role in this project:
Software Engineer
Software EngineerContributions:15 commits, 34 PRs, 21 pushes in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Elias primarily contributes to fixing bugs and improving the IDAPython project. They addressed build issues on Windows, ensured the chooser is displayed when the script launches, and corrected `decompile()` function calls. Additionally, the user resolved an issue in `Choose.OnGetLineAttr` and simplified a related fix, indicating a focus on code stability and functionality within the IDA Pro environment.
hexraypythonida-proida
allthingsida/idax
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
idax: IDASDK extension libraries
Contributions:10 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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