Polshakov Dmitry
Software Engineer at DSR Corporation
Summary
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RockstarPolshakov Dmitry is a system-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in backend development, reverse engineering, and low-level tooling. He has made substantial open-source contributions to notable projects such as the ImHex hex editor—improving core functionality like pattern handling, preprocessing, and byte manipulation—and to widely used security and communication projects like THC-Hydra and qTox. Dmitry’s work emphasizes pragmatic bug fixes, performance and correctness improvements, and maintainable refactors, often addressing subtle type and iteration issues that impact reliability. Comfortable in C/C++ and systems contexts, he brings a reverse-engineering mindset to improving developer-facing tools and protocols. Colleagues can expect a developer who combines deep technical rigor with attention to usability for other engineers working late-night debugging sessions.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (31)
debug10
c-language10
penetration-testing10
r10
tox10
cracking10
c-programming10
c1110
security10
c1710
localization10
rup10
network-security10
reverse-engineering10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
qTox/qTox
May 2015 - Jun 2019
qTox is a chat, voice, video, and file transfer IM client using the encrypted peer-to-peer Tox protocol.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 527 commits, 516 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Polshakov appears to be primarily focused on Russian language translation within the qTox project. The user's commits mostly involve updating and fixing Russian language translations in the `ru.ts` file, which seems to be a localization file for the Qt application. Additionally, they have worked on the implementation of Toxme and related features.
qtoxc-plus-pluswebrtcpeer-to-peervideo
vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra
Apr 2016 - Jun 2017
hydra
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 17 PRs, 11 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Polshakov primarily focused on bug fixes and code improvements within the THC-Hydra repository. Their commits addressed type mismatches, undefined behaviors, and incorrect size calculations. They also refactored the `hydra_debug` function and made several code structure improvements by introducing enums and macro for maintainability and added modules functionality.
bruteforcerpassword-crackingpentestbruteforcingbrute-force-attacks
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