Mikhail Gorobets
Security Researcher at Intel Corporation
Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarMikhail Gorobets is a Security Researcher at Intel with nine years of professional experience, based in Hillsboro, Oregon. He blends deep systems-level understanding with applied security research, contributing to low-level graphics infrastructure in open source by improving Vulkan backend performance and shader handling in the DiligentCore project. At Intel he focuses on finding and mitigating complex vulnerabilities in hardware-adjacent software stacks, applying pragmatic engineering to hard problems. Colleagues value his knack for refactoring and optimization—skills that surface both in his security work and in contributions to cross-platform graphics tooling. Known for digging into nuanced implementation details, he brings a careful, performance-minded approach to securing modern compute platforms.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (5)
vulkan10
graphics-engine10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
directx4
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
DiligentGraphics/DiligentCore
Feb 2021 - Nov 2022
A modern cross-platform low-level graphics API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 32 commits, 119 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Mikhail's contributions primarily involved enhancing the Vulkan backend of the cross-platform graphics API. They focused on refactoring and optimizing the Vulkan implementation, including replacing VkFencePool with Timeline Semaphore in VkFenceImpl and adding features like the DRAW_COMMAND_CAP_FLAG_BASE_VERTEX flag. The user also made improvements to the shader include processing mechanism and the graphics API's type conversions.
graphicopenglopengl-esdirect3dgraphics
MikhailGorobets/DiligentTools
Sep 2021 - Jun 2026
Utilities built on top of core module
Contributions:2 PRs, 252 pushes, 86 branches in 4 years 10 months
azerothcorecore-moduleweb-developermodularrealms
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