Michael Sprecher
St Engr Calt - Software Development at Verizon
Carson City, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Sprecher is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience, currently contributing to software development at Verizon from Carson City, Nevada. He brings deep back-end expertise and a practical security focus, evidenced by notable open-source contributions to hashcat—the world's fastest password recovery utility—where he implemented new hash modes and Ansible Vault support. Michael excels at integrating low-level optimizations and OpenCL kernel changes to support emerging hash types like ArubaOS and OpenCart, showing both performance and protocol knowledge. His background combines hands-on systems coding with a business-adjacent AA in Business Administration, reflecting a pragmatic blend of technical and operational thinking. Colleagues describe him as a reliable engineer who tackles hard, niche problems that bridge security tooling and infrastructure.
16 years of coding experience
Associate of Arts - AA, Business Administration and Management, General, Associate of Arts - AA, Business Administration and Management, General at Isucku
Github Skills (8)
c1710
cuda10
opencl10
cracking10
hash-functions10
hashing-algorithm10
c1110
hashcat10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hashcat/hashcat
Apr 2016 - Dec 2022
World's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 10 PRs, 26 comments in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to adding and modifying hash modes within the hashcat password recovery utility. Their commits involved implementing support for new hash types like ArubaOS and OpenCart, and adding Ansible Vault functionality. Code changes included modifying core functionalities in `test.pl`, `oclHashcat.c`, `src/shared.c`, `include/shared.h`, and `OpenCL` kernels to accommodate new hash types and optimize performance.
cudapassword-generatorpassword-managerfastestpassword
hops/pack2
May 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:34 commits, 4 pushes, 3 comments in 5 months
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