Marek Milkovič
Senior Engineering Manager at Gen
Brno, Southeast, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolMarek Milkovič is an engineering manager based in Brno with 11 years of experience leading teams that build malware-hunting infrastructure and developer tooling. He currently heads a small team at GenDigital focused on YARA infrastructure and remains an active contributor to high-profile open-source projects like VirusTotal/yara and the retargetable decompiler RetDec. Deeply versed in low-level engineering—C, C++, x86 assembly—he combines compiler and reverse-engineering expertise with practical DevOps skills in Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD. Marek’s background includes hands-on fixes for memory and parsing issues in YARA and a university pedigree in language/runtime work (notably a speed-competition placing for a PHP sublanguage interpreter), reflecting both production impact and academic rigor.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Brno University of TechnologyProgramovanie, Programovanie at Gymnázium Golianova 68, Nitra (Slovensko)
English
Stackoverflow
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50kreached
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Github Skills (16)
c1710
memory-management10
c1110
yara10
file-parsing10
regular-expression8
testing8
flex-lexer6
elf6
googlemock6
googletest6
bison6
compiler-construction6
executable6
ghc6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
VirusTotal/yara
Jul 2016 - Sep 2022
The pattern matching swiss knife
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 25 PRs, 30 comments in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Marek primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the YARA codebase. Their contributions include null-terminating string objects, fixing memory read issues in the PE module, adding parsing for unoptimized metadata streams in the dotnet module, and correcting parsing of PE export directories. Furthermore, the user addressed memory leaks in tests and fixed compilation warnings. The user also added an iequals operator for case-insensitive string comparisons.
pattern-matching
metthal/yara
Jul 2016 - Mar 2024
The pattern matching swiss knife
Contributions:128 pushes, 30 branches in 7 years 8 months
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