Summary
Vesselin Bontchev is a veteran computer anti-virus researcher with roots in the industry dating back to its founding era in 1988 and decades of hands-on work at FRISK Software International and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences labs. He specializes in classical and macro viruses and the design of anti-virus programs, combining deep academic training (Ph.D., M.Sc., University of Hamburg) with practical threat research and product development. Based in Sofia, Bulgaria, he bridges research and engineering, having led virology labs and contributed to institutional cyber research since the mid-1980s. Notably, he has migrated his open-source efforts off GitHub to GitLab, signaling a focused, self-directed approach to maintaining and sharing tooling outside mainstream platforms.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., M.Sc., Ph.D., M.Sc. at University of Hamburg
English, Bulgarian, Russian, German, French