Elias Bachaalany
United States, Lebanon
Summary
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RockstarElias Bachaalany is a founder and game security engineer at Microsoft with 12 years of experience protecting first- and third-party game clients by reverse-engineering malware, Windows drivers, and cheat programs. He founded PassingTheKnowledge LLC to provide consulting, training and book publishing, co-authoring Practical Reverse Engineering and The Antivirus Hacker’s Handbook and authoring Batchography. A long-time contributor to IDA Pro and former Hex-Rays programmer, he took ownership of IDAPython, built plugins like Bochs and WinDbg, and helped implement ROP mitigations in EMET. He runs the All Things IDA YouTube channel, offers bespoke reverse-engineering training, and maintains popular GitHub projects including TheBigPromptLibrary and ida-qscripts. Based in Redmond, he blends deep low-level expertise with practical tooling and education to harden game clients and investigate kernel- and user-mode threats.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (85)
security10
ida10
hex10
jtag10
deobfuscation10
capstone10
unicorn10
x86-6410
glibc10
sparc10
powerpc10
s390x10
cpu10
x8610
minimize10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
0xeb/pyexefile
May 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
PassingTheKnowledge/Batchography
May 2016 - Nov 2019
Scripts and snippets from the Batchography book
Contributions:31 commits, 1 PR, 26 pushes in 3 years 7 months
pythonsnippets
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