Vlad Stoica
Security Engineer II - AppSec at UiPath
Bucharest, Romania
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Top SchoolVlad Stoica is a versatile Security Engineer II focused on application security with 11 years of hands-on experience transitioning from full-stack and DevSecOps roles into AppSec at UiPath. He builds clean, performant, and secure systems across PHP, Python, Go, and Linux environments, and has deep practical experience hardening legacy webapps and configuring secure infrastructure from scratch. An ethical hacker and homelab enthusiast, he contributes YARA rules to detect PHP webshells and RATs, blending offensive detection skills with defensive engineering. Based in Bucharest, he pairs a telecommunications engineering background with a pragmatic approach to privacy and open source, and is not actively seeking new opportunities.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Colegiul National "Mihai Eminescu"Telecommunications Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering at Universitatea Maritimă din Constanța
English, Romanian
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Github Skills (15)
malware10
yara10
anti-malware10
security10
php9
regular-expression8
html6
ajax6
twitter-bootstrap6
javascript6
tinymce6
jquery6
laravel6
regex6
mysql6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Yara-Rules/rules
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Repository of yara rules
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 2 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Vlad primarily contributed YARA rules to detect malicious PHP webshells, PHP spam files, and various Remote Access Trojans (RATs). Their work involved writing rules to identify specific patterns in code, including strings, regular expressions, and file headers, to classify different types of malware. They also updated existing rulesets by merging branches and modifying rule parameters.
yara-rulesyararules
vlad-s/hcpxread
Aug 2017 - Aug 2020
Tool to view & parse HCCAPX files
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 2 years 11 months
parseparser
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