Martin Prikryl
Owner, Lead Developer at WinSCP
Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolMartin Prikryl is the owner and lead developer of WinSCP and a Prague-based software engineer with 22 years of professional experience. He authored WinSCP, a widely used open-source SFTP/SCP/FTP/S3/WebDAV client for Windows, and continues to lead its backend networking and security development. Martin has held senior developer, architect and team lead roles at Barclays Capital, Logica and Deutsche Börse, bringing financial-grade robustness to his work. His hands-on contributions include restoring and hardening HTTP proxy negotiation and authentication, addressing connection-abort edge cases, and refining low-level networking borrowed from the PuTTY codebase. Since founding WinSCP in 2000 he has balanced commercial and open-source delivery while holding a master’s degree in Information Technology from the University of Economics in Prague.
22 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Technology, Master's degree, Information Technology at University of Economics in Prague, Faculty of Informatics and Statistics
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Github Skills (77)
python10
windows10
proxy10
security10
file-upload10
sftp10
putty10
ssh10
linux10
ftp10
registry10
powershell10
java10
batch-file10
ssl10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
winscp/winscp
Jul 2003 - Jan 2023
WinSCP is a popular free file manager for Windows supporting SFTP, FTP, FTPS, SCP, S3, WebDAV and local-to-local file transfers. A powerful tool to enhance your productivity with a user-friendly interface and automation options like .NET assembly.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 6463 commits, 52 PRs in 19 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Martin's commits show a focus on low-level networking and security aspects of the PuTTY codebase. Their contributions include restoring and enhancing HTTP proxy support, which includes modifications to proxy negotiation and authentication. They also addressed a failure related to connection abortion and have been involved in several updates including code refactoring and bug fixes.
protocolsftpsftp-clientwindowsproductivity
martinprikryl/test
Jan 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 2 months
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