Hi all, I am @bormaxi8080, aka Maxim Marshak, OSINT & investigations enthusiast, software developer and technical communications specialist.
I develop and investigate People, Companies and Incidents Data on Python, Ruby, JS, Perl, Bash with OSINT, Cybesecurity & DevOps activities and practices.
I focused on collecting various data about individuals, companies, structures and incidents and develop OSINT solutions related to this topic, as well as a variety of parsers, scrapers, systems for comparing and analyzing poorly structured data. I have extensive experience in hiring in the IT and periodically act as a communicator in various technical communities, and actively participate in open source development.
Previously I acted as head hunter targeted for positions in IT level from middle+, with relocation outside Russia, write about tech, development and participate in various professional communities.
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bormaxi8080 OSINT Timeline weekly newseletter with collection of tools, services and investigations.
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OSINT Repos List of my GitHub Starred Repositories and its creators.
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OSINT Framework fork, revised and modified version of https://osintframework.com OSINT mindmap service.
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Huginn (private fork commits), a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online.
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Telepathy, optimized fork Bellingcat's version of Telepathy Telegram OSINT tool.
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linkedin2md repository illustrates a scheme for building a simple resume/profile database based on a minimalist approach and storing structured profile information in markdown format. This project was subsequently transformed into a system for collecting data and storing information about people’s profiles, which is not a classic ATS. This part is in a private repository.
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Marshak Telegram Channel, our family channel based on Marshak's poetry.
- Experience in searching for people, facts from various sources, in social networks monitoring and promoting communities, including closed ones
- Interest in the application of OSINT techniques, research and investigations. Experience in automating, developing and configuring solutions for OSINT investigations, Maltego transformations, managing various datasets with data about people, companies, incidents and some artifacts to research it
- Strong skills in backend development (Python/Ruby/JS/Perl/Bash)
- Strong skills in communication and hiring specialists in various career areas, mainly IT. Extensive experience in career OSINT, hiring and relocating specialists, all kinds of communications
- Python, Node.js, JavaScript, Ruby, Perl, Bash
- PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySql, Redis, Django, Celery, RabbitMQ
- AWS (EC2, Amplify, S3, RDS, Route 53, DynamoDB), ClickHouse, Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix
- Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Kali, Amazon Linux, Arch Linux, Parrot OS, Mikrotik OS, CentOS, FreeBSD), MacOS, Windows, Virtualization (VirtualBox, Vagrant, VMWare), Docker - at the level of normal, advanced in places, DevOps. I have a talent to install and configure any software so that it works on any systems and configurations
- Some frameworks & tools for highload, queuing, mutli threading, multi processing, sharding, etc. for building optimal technical solutions
- Maltego, Shodan, Telepathy, Sherlock, theHarvester, SpiderFoot, Metasploit, Huginn, and more OSINT frameworks & tools to realize investigations for various resources
- Selenium, Puppeteer and at different times a bunch of all sorts of exotics for parsing, scraping, crawling and data enrichment
- Various protocols related to e-mail (POP3, IMAP, MTA logs, verification and validation of addresses through various services, mass mailings)
- C++ as a secret rarely used skill
- Java, .NET - at the level of “I can, but without fanaticism”
- PHP - at the level of “collect or fix something quickly”
- Vue, React - at the level of understanding how it works (there is no industrial experience in frontend development)
- Delphi, Embarcadero, VBScript as oldfag )
- UX, Figma, CSS, Styles - I can make it nice if needed
Unlike many people who are interested in OSINT and information security, I do not seek to be anonymous, and information about me is open to a reasonable extent. This is a principled position aimed at popularizing research activities and supporting democratic values in the world.
For quite a long time I was engaged in hiring specialists in IT and took about 250 families outside RF. With the beginning of war in Ukraine, I left Russia, and I do not consider offers from Russian corporations, state structures, and office work within Russia. Now I live in other countries.
In parallel with development and hiring in IT, I was involved in development of various communities, including non-core for IT, and met a lot of interesting and famous people: social activists, journalists, politically concerned citizens, HR, PR people, developers, security specialists, etc. At a certain point, this activity logically led me to become interested in OSINT.
Twitter: @OSINTech_
LinkedIn: @osintech
Continued...
Oct 2024-Now - Began studying at the Open Literary School of Almaty
Oct 2024-Now - Began studying at the Free University
Aug 2024 - Completed Pavel Bannikov's Profiling OSINT Course
Apr 2023-Now - OSINT Timelines and Collections activities
Jun 2022-Now - OSINT & investigative journalism activities
Nov 2022-Now - Busy in a private projects about collecting social data
Nov 2022-Now - Busy in a private project about email checking (big conveyor)
Nov 2022-Now - Busy in a private project about AD processing (big conveyor)
Oct 2022-Now - Continue experimenting with social media monitoring and people's big data imports
Jan 2023-Apr 2023 - Private project about collecting companies data on LinkedIn
Sep 2022-Aug 2023 - Help for those who fled from mobilization in Russia
Sep 2022 - Create linkedin2md repository illustrates a scheme for building a simple resume/profile database based on a minimalist approach and storing structured profile information in markdown format. Transferring my data (about 50,000 people profiles) from proprietary formats to markdown
Aug 2022 - Huginn works (private fork commits)
Aug 2022 - Organizing my own OSINT collections
Aug 2022 - OSINT Framework fork
Jul 2022 - Telepathy project updates (Bellingcat fork)
Jun 2022 - Start some OSINT collections and tools
Jun 2022 - Create a new account on LinkedIn
Jun 2022 - Start a facebook-ban-phrases project, the list of phrases in different languages for which you can get banned on Facebook
May-Jun 2022 - Leave Russia (evacuation so as not to be imprisoned)
Mar-May 2022 - Prepare and change my server infrastrucure and communities to the military situation in the world
Mar 2022-Now - Nurnberg Trials 2.0 project help
Mar 2022 - Start Marshak's Telegram Channel
Feb 2022 - Create batu-poll-checker utility for monitoring the results of voting for orangutan Batu in the election of a New Year's mascot in Novosibirsk, Russia, february 2022, with all the world and Russian media wrote about this incident. Details is here
Jan 2022 - Worked on the creation of a complex highload email verification system (private)
Jan 2022 - Create a NMap packet domain list scanner utility, some OSINT tools experiments
Dec 2021 - Close my hiring agency and checkout into NDA place as software developer
Jun 2021 - Dec 2024 a RIP Leaks community project, publicly oppose the processes of Russian import substitution, including in the IT sector, and cover news on this topic. Project closed.
May 2021 - Repair this GitHub account from reserve
Jun 2020 - Start a Ebenya Rodiny (aka Fucking Motherland) project, one of the largest collections of graffiti and street art in the world.
Mar 2020 - Sep 2020 - Compelled Career Break by private reasons
Jun 2019 - Start hiring developers in Improve Group, the best all-time IT company in Novosibirsk, mobile application development. Hiring employees, hiring employees, hiring employees. First I worked under a contract, then in the state. The company closed in 2021
2018-2019 - Moderate AngryHR, the largest HR comminity in Russian facebook segment, I think it's not really the best experience in my practice
2018 - Start a Nelin.in community project
2015 - Start a GoodJob Hiring Agency
A small warm tube recruitment agency. Recruitment geography: Novosibirsk, remote location, relocation from the RF to Europe (I took more than 250 family outside the Russian Federation and friends gave me the nickname "Russian Schindler"). Hiring candidates in IT from the middle level. Automated candidate database of 30+ thousand people. I created my own community, for 6 years I gained a lot of connections and insights among different companies at different times in the team from 1 to 6 recruiters. Worked with companies such as Exness, Intel, Plesk, DevExperts, Think-Cell and many others.
A lot of different communications and activities.
2013 - A Pencil Tests habr's publication with 1M views
2000-2015 - Programming in various projects
- Marshak: https://t.me/mmarshak
Our family channel based on Marshak's poetry
- Ebenya Rodiny (aka Fucking Motherland): https://www.instagram.com/ebenya_rodiny/
One of the largest collections of street art in the world
- NeLen.In: https://www.instagram.com/nelen.in/
Sarkasm anti-communist photo collection about Vladimir Lenin and the Soviet era
Especially for my friends and opponents:
I publicly oppose war and Russian political system. I help projects aimed at exposing state and war crimes and publicly condemn Russian invasion of Ukraine.
If you like the projects that I do, I will be grateful for donations in private dialogue.