Hello Wine Developers,
My name is Michael "Gynvael Coldwind" Skladnikiewicz, and I am thinking about applying for the Google SoC to work on Wine. Please excuse my English, I am not a native English speaker.
The first step written on the Wine Ideas page was -introduction-, so.. a little about myself. I am currently at the Wroclaw Univeristy of Technology (it's Politechnika Wrocławska in Polish) on the faculty of Computer Science and Management (Wydział Informatyki i Zarządzania), and my field of study is Computer Science. I am currently at the first year of the second degree - I already graduated the first degree, and I have the right to the degree "inżynier" (it's equal to BSc). I have graduated the same University, but another faculty - The Fundamental Problems of Technology Faculty, where my field of study was also Computer Science. In addition to being a full-time student, I am also working (remotly) at Hispasec Sistemat, where I am a malware reverse engineer, a security researcher and a coder (mostly Windows stuff, both user and kernel mode). Earlier I have worked at Arcabit, a Polish antivirus company, where I created static unpackers for common PE crypters/packers.
I started to code when I was about 7 years old (now I'm 24) on an Atari 800 XL, and as the time passed I've moved to a PC and started to code in other languages, like C, C++, Java, Assembler, PHP, and many others. My personal field of interest is computer security (up to date I have found some vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Blizzard Starcraft, and few others), reverse engineering, computer graphics (software rendering algorithms and OpenGL mostly), game developement (and playing ;>), and OS research (mostly I focus on Microsoft Windows, but I am also interested in Linux and QNX). Some of my research papers can be found on http://vexillium.org/ and http://gynvael.vexillium.org/.
I guess that is enough for introducing myself ;> If You have any questions, don't hesitate to ask ;>
Best regards,
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Gynvael Coldwind