About Dmitry Vostokov
Sponored link: Memory Dump Analysis Services
Debugging Experts Magazine Online
My current position in Citrix is Principal Dev Analysis Engineer and I work in Dublin office, Ireland. I joined Citrix on 14th of October, 2003 as an Escalation Development Analysis Engineer and later became EMEA Development Analysis Team Lead and then Technical Manager Dev Analysis EMEA before moving back into engineering. I hold an honorable title of Dr. DebugLove:
http://twitter.com/CitrixSupport (see also an introduction on Citrix blog).
I’m the author of several Citrix debugging and troubleshooting tools including:
- SystemDump
- Citrix DumpCheck Explorer Extension
- WindowHistory 32-bit
- WindowHistory 64-bit
- WindowHistory Mobile
- MessageHistory
- ProcessHistory
- PDBFinder
- TestDefaultDebugger
- InstantDump (JIT Process Dumper)
- CtxHideEx
- ScreenHistory
- ADSCleaner
- SsOnExpert (designed according to DebugWare patterns and co-implemented by a team of engineers using RADII process)
and Dump2Wave / Dump2Picture tools.
I’m also a co-author of the very popular Citrix StressPrinters tool and an author of WinDbg high-level automation tool EasyDbg.
I have my personal web site www.vostokov.com (hasn’t been updated since 2003) and I’m a founder of
- www.dumpanalysis.org (crash dump analysis portal)
- www.kerneldebugging.com
- www.asmpedia.org (assembly language encyclopedia)
- www.debugware.com (supporting website for the forthcoming book DebugWare: The Art and Craft of Writing Troubleshooting Tools)
- www.windbg.org (quick links to popular debuggers)
- www.dumpanalysis.com (memory dump analysis services)
The following links are currently mirrors of crash dump analysis portal
I’m planning to put something useful there in the future. For example, forensic memory analysis is similar to crash dump analysis.
I also own Management Bits and Tips blog www.managementbits.com, Literate Scientist blog www.literatescientist.com, Software Generalist blog www.softwaregeneralist.com, Software Astrology blog www.softwareastrology.com, Language Memory blog www.languagememory.com and Blog Topos Metablog www.blogtopos.com.
I’m a founder and an Editor-in-Chief of Opentask Iterative and Incremental Publishing and the author of several published and forthcoming books. I’m also an Editor-in-Chief of Debugged! MZ/PE: MagaZine for/from Practicing Engineers and its online version www.debuggingexpert.com (www.debuggingexperts.com), a founding director and Chief Scientist at Memory Analysis and Debugging Institute (MA&DI), a founder of Software Maintenance Institute (SMI) where I’m a senior director, and a founder and Director of R&D at Memory Dump Analysis Services.
Other my current interests include art, history, languages and linguistics, mathematics (foundations, category theory), physics, philosophy, religions and computer science. I’m a member of ACM and IEEE. I studied Chemistry in Moscow State University decades ago and was graduated with BSc/MSc in Software Engineering from ISTU. I consider myself an independent scholar, a software defect researcher, and an independent artist:

and the tsar of memory dump analysis [as a founder of Memory Religion (Memorianity) where I hold a memorianic title of Memoriarch]:

I consider books as memory dumps too:

If you want to know more about me please read my interviews:
Picture taken when I started doing crash dump analysis
Picture taken after 3 years of blogging
Here is the timeline of various memory dump analysis activities:
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/Timeline
You can contact me using this page:
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/contact
If you are interested in what I’d been doing before I joined Citrix please read my old CV:
http://vostokov.opentask.com/CV.htm
It is also available in book format with its own ISBN 978-1906717346:
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/CV+as+a+Book

Museum of Debugging and Memory Dumps
7/7/2010 - 8/8/2010 Annual Competition: Tell Your Windows Debugging Story
Crash and Hang Analysis Audit Service
CARE: Crash Analysis Report Environment
Crash Dump and Software Trace Analysis Training and Seminars
DATA (Dump Analysis + Trace Analysis) Facebook group
Please join the community of memory (dump) and trace analysis engineers. This group promotes scientific methods and memory dump-based worldview.
Twitter @ DumpAnalysis You can now follow portal and blog news at DumpAnalysis on Twitter
LinkedIn Group Dr. Watson Enthusiasts All about Dr. Watson errors and more. Get news, excerpts and progress reports about the forthcoming book The Science of Dr. Watson: An Illustrated History of Debugging (ISBN 978-1906717070)
International Memory Analysts and Debuggers Day: 07.07 and/or 08.08 starting from The Year of Dump Analysis, 2010, 7DA
AnnouncementsComing Soon:
Management Bits: An Anthology from Reductionist Manager
Debugging Notebook: Essential Concepts, WinDbg Commands and Tools
Crash Dump Analysis for System Administrators and Support Engineers
New Magazines:
Debugged! MZ/PE: MagaZine for/from Practicing Engineers
New Books:
Memory Dump Analysis Anthology: Color Supplement for Volumes 1-3
Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 3
First Fault Software Problem Solving: A Guide for Engineers, Managers and Users
x64 Windows Debugging: Practical Foundations
Also available:
Windows Debugging: Practical Foundations
DLL List Landscape: The Art from Computer Memory Space
Dumps, Bugs and Debugging Forensics: The Adventures of Dr. Debugalov
WinDbg: A Reference Poster and Learning Cards
Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 2
Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 1New Children's Book:
Baby Turing