Mak Kolybabi
Knight Of Portscans at Coalition, Inc.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMak Kolybabi is a pragmatic security-focused software engineer with 15 years of experience building Internet-scale scanning, detection, and vulnerability tooling. Based in Winnipeg and working remotely since 2011, he blends systems-level reverse engineering and threat research with practical backend and frontend contributions to well-known open-source projects like DuckDuckGo Instant Answers and DNS reconnaissance tools. At Coalition he champions Go rewrites and robust type-checked Python, while previously leading threat research that scanned the entire Internet to surface real security risks. He favors clear, context-rich code comments and large PRs that get rubber-stamped before holidays, and balances deep technical work with a family-first, 40-hour workweek lifestyle. Mak’s work demonstrates a rare mix of offensive security insight, production-quality engineering, and a long track record of shipping durable detection and scanning plugins still in use today.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at University of Manitoba
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
duckduckgo10
javascript10
handlebars10
back-end-development10
python10
enumeration10
it-security10
json-api10
c1110
perl10
security10
c1710
instant-view10
hash-algorithm10
dns10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
iagox86/hash_extender
Sep 2012 - Sep 2012
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:17 commits in 14 days
Contributions summary:Mak primarily focused on enhancing the security and functionality of a hash extension tool. Their contributions include refactoring code to utilize standard boolean types, aggregating printf calls for improved code readability, and rewriting the Makefile for better portability, including FreeBSD support. Furthermore, the user made several changes to the README.html file.
duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on JavaScript (JSON) APIs
Role in this project:Back-end & Front-end Developer
Back-end & Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 14 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Mak contributed significantly to the DuckDuckGo Instant Answers project by implementing a Tor node information spice. They developed both Perl code (`DDG/Spice/TorNode.pm`) for back-end functionality, including handling queries and interacting with an external API. Additionally, they created JavaScript code (`share/spice/tor_node/tor_node.js`) to format and display the Tor node information in a user-friendly interface, along with related CSS and Handlebars templates for detail display. The user refactored both the Perl and JavaScript code, adding support for multiple results, and refining the display and data formatting.
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