Zach Collins
C++ Developer
USA, United States
Summary
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RockstarZach Collins is a C++ developer with five years of hands-on experience building security-minded back-end systems and tooling. He has contributed significant cryptographic and data-integrity functionality to open-source projects—implementing AES, SHA256, CRC32, RNG utilities and ZLIB integration for an image steganography tool that encodes and decodes files into images. Based in the United States and an Arch Linux user, Zach blends low-level systems programming with practical security considerations, favoring portable, performant C++ implementations. He’s also a Japanese learner and basement guitarist, hinting at curiosity and steady discipline beyond code.
5 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
c-language10
steganography10
cprogramming-language10
crc10
sha10
encryption10
cryptography10
aes10
zlib9
randomization9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
7thSamurai/steganography
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Simple C++ Image Steganography tool to encrypt and hide files inside images using Least-Significant-Bit encoding.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 38 commits, 3 PRs in 11 days
Contributions summary:Zach significantly contributed to the project by implementing core cryptographic functionalities and classes, as evidenced by the addition of bit rotate utilities, an AES encryption class, a SHA256 hash class, and a CRC32 hash class. They also added a random number generator, crucial for security applications, and integrated ZLIB. Furthermore, the user implemented the core of the image steganography functionality by adding image encoding and decoding, utilizing the developed cryptographic tools.
pbkdf2cryptographyhide-filescppimage-steganography-tool
7thSamurai/Azayaka
Dec 2020 - Nov 2022
A Game Boy and Game Boy Color Emulator
Contributions:49 commits, 2 PRs, 49 pushes in 1 year 10 months
gameboygame-boysdccemulatorgame-boy-color
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