Vladislav Hrčka is a Senior Software Engineer and seasoned malware researcher with seven years of experience, now applying his reverse-engineering expertise at SentinelOne after a six-year tenure at ESET. He specializes in unpacking sophisticated malware families, developing tools to defeat advanced obfuscation, and has published and presented findings at top security venues including Black Hat USA and REcon. His open-source contributions to the miasm reverse-engineering framework demonstrate hands-on impact on core x86 support and instruction-prefix handling. Currently finishing a master’s in Computer Science with a cybersecurity focus, he has also taught reverse-engineering principles at local universities and occasionally sharpens his skills in CTFs. Based in Spain, he pairs deep technical research with practical engineering to turn complex threats into reproducible detection and analysis workflows.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave
Contributions:14 commits, 23 PRs, 22 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Vladislav primarily contributed to the reverse engineering framework, focusing on the x86 architecture. Their work involved implementing support for the REP instruction prefix and associated aliases, debugging and fixing existing code related to instruction prefixes. They also added functions for pathfinding within the codebase and made minor improvements to address bugs and code efficiency, specifically in handling string concatenation and dependency graph operations. The user’s work directly impacted core functionality, with code changes across multiple files within the framework.
GUI rozhranie na riadenie astronomického ďalekohľadu na pozorovanie kozmického odpadu
Contributions:20 reviews, 30 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 months
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Vladislav Hrčka - Senior Software Engineer at SentinelOne