Kobi Mizrachi
Senior Staff Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Israel
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Kobi Mizrachi is a Senior Staff Engineer based in Israel with 8 years of experience building secure, low-level systems across industry, open source, and military intelligence. He brings deep expertise in embedded device exploitation, RDP protocol internals, and stability-focused back-end engineering, having maintained a secure RDP proxy and contributed bug fixes to the widely used FreeRDP project. Kobi’s career spans Unit 8200, years of hands-on low-level development and security research at Toka, and now a leadership role at Palo Alto Networks, blending offensive security insight with production-grade engineering. He is skilled at turning complex protocol and memory-safety issues into reliable, performant implementations and is comfortable collaborating in open-source and enterprise settings. An interesting detail: his open-source work includes fixing subtle PDU parsing and segmentation-fault bugs in FreeRDP, reflecting a focus on core reliability that often goes unnoticed by end users.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at The Open University of Israel
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Github Skills (13)
c1710
debugging10
xrdp10
debug10
rdp10
c1110
remote-desktop10
asynchronous6
winforms6
go6
javascript6
rtf6
printf6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
FreeRDP/FreeRDP
Mar 2019 - Jan 2022
FreeRDP is a free remote desktop protocol library and clients
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 reviews, 230 commits, 101 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Kobi primarily focused on addressing bugs and improving the code quality within the FreeRDP codebase. This included fixing a wrong log level in update.c and resolving a segmentation fault issue in IniFile\_Load, indicating a focus on core functionality. Additionally, they addressed errors within the rdpgfx implementation related to PDU parsing. These changes improved the overall stability of the remote desktop protocol library and clients.
freerdpremote-desktopsdlrdpandroid
kubistika/mitmproxy-logging-script
Jun 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 12 pushes in 2 months
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