About Dmitry Vostokov

Forthcoming Webinar on Pattern-Driven Software Diagnostics

2012 - The Year of Software Trace Analysis

Accelerated Memory Dump Analysis Training

Tool Objects: Unified Troubleshooting and Debugging

Sponsored link: Memory Dump Analysis Services

Debugging Experts Magazine Online

Debugging Today Daily Newspaper

Debugging TV

Making Software A Better World

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.

My Citrix blog address: http://blogs.citrix.com/author/dmitryv/

I’m the author of several Citrix debugging and troubleshooting tools including:

and Dump2Wave / Dump2Picture tools.

I’m also a co-author of the very popular Citrix StressPrinters tool (top 3 Citrix support tools in 2010) and an author of WinDbg high-level automation tool EasyDbg.

Other duties include an administrator of Citrix and Microsoft Support Forum.

I also designed “I Love Citrix” social media logo you see on the picture above.

I have my personal web site www.vostokov.com (hasn’t been updated since 2003) and I’m a founder of

The following links are currently mirrors of crash dump analysis portal

For example, forensic memory analysis is similar to crash dump analysis and malware and software defects lead to victimware. Trace analysis uses ideas from the field of software narratology. I’m planning to separate them in the future if their content significantly diverges from the memory dump analysis portal.

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 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, a founder and Director of Research at Memory Dump Analysis Services, a Principal Architect at Tool Objects, a security researcher at Malware Analysis Research System (MARS), a founder of Dublin School of Security, a founder and President of Irish Technical Writers and Publishers Associations, a founder and coordinator of Alliance of Technical Book Reviewers, a founder of daily newspaper Debugging Today and Debugging TV, and Software Generalists political party.

I also founded a few scientific disciplines such as memoretics, software trace linguistics and software narratology, and philosophy of memoidealism.

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 and thinker (founder of Metaphysical Society of Ireland), a software defect researcher, and an independent artist (founder of memory space, debugging, physicalist and computical art movements: http://www.dumpanalysis.org/arts-photography).

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

I consider books as memory dumps too:

I’m also an inventor of M->analysis, a novel pattern-driven psychotherapeutic method.

If you want to know more about me please read my interviews (see also an introduction on Citrix blog):

- Inside Citrix November 2006

- TRM Tech Times June 2009

- Philosophical Self-Interview 2011

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 (I’m also working on the 2nd edition):

http://www.dumpanalysis.org/CV+as+a+Book

Sponsored link: Professional Software Debugging Services

/* Malware and Software Defects -> Victimware.org */

Copyright © 2006 - 2012. This is a non-profit research and scientific project.

Citrix and Microsoft Customer Forum

Museum of Debugging and Memory Dumps

7/7/2011 - 8/8/2011 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

Announcements

Coming Soon:

Resume and CV: As a Book

Fundamentals of Complete Crash and Hang Memory Dump Analysis

Management Bits: An Anthology from Reductionist Manager

Crash Dump Analysis: Practical Foundations (Windows Edition, Systematic Software Fault Analysis Series)

Crash Dump Analysis for System Administrators and Support Engineers

New Magazines:

Debugged! MZ/PE: MagaZine for/from Practicing Engineers

New Books:

Advanced Windows Memory Dump Analysis with Data Structures: Training Course Transcript and WinDbg Practice Exercises with Notes

Accelerated .NET Memory Dump Analysis: Training Course Transcript and WinDbg Practice Exercises with Notes

Accelerated Windows Memory Dump Analysis: Training Course Transcript and WinDbg Practice Exercises with Notes

Introduction to Pattern-Driven Software Problem Solving

Memory Dump Analysis Anthology: Color Supplement for Volumes 4-5

Windows Debugging Notebook: Essential User Space WinDbg Commands

Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 5

Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 4

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 1

New Children's Book:

Baby Turing