Vesselin Bontchev
Computer Anti-Virus Researcher at FRISK Software International
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
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Top SchoolVesselin 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
Stackoverflow
492reputation
34kreached
3answers
14questions
Github Skills (137)
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webextension10
compound-file10
msoffice10
influxdb10
sftp10
ssh10
monitoring10
binary-format10
rtf10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bontchev/ipphoney
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:33 commits in 17 days
bontchev/wlscrape
Jul 2016 - Oct 2016
A tool for scrapping the possible malware from the Wikileaks AKP leak
Contributions:53 commits, 4 PRs, 49 pushes in 3 months
malware
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