Soxoj — OSINT specialist and tool developer

I am an OSINT specialist with a background in cybersecurity and software development.

Some of my projects 🚧

• Maigret - collects a dossier on a person by username across 5K sites (37K stars)
• Telegram Spoiler Decoder - reveals the text hidden behind a Telegram spoiler
• SOWEL - social media intelligence mapped as a knowledge base of weaknesses
• telegram-bot-dumper - magically dumps all Telegram bot messages by its token + web version
• OSINT namecheckers list - every tool that checks accounts by username
• Counter-OSINT & privacy guide [RU] - protecting your personal information
• Adana - 1-click analytical dashboard, Bellingcat hackathon project

Currently, I am the Chief Product Officer (CPO) at Social Links, where I am building the most advanced investigation platform in the world. I originally joined the company by founding the OSINT Center of Excellence, an expert department that conducts investigations, teaches OSINT, and develops new methods and professional investigation tools.

I was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, and have lived in Kursk and Moscow, Russia. Now I live in Amsterdam, Netherlands. I first got into open-source intelligence during my student years in 2015, engaging in CTFs and ARGs and developing information-gathering and processing tools. I have experience in anti-bot and anti-fraud protection, penetration testing, programming (Python, Go, Lua), product management, establishing development workflows (Scrum, Kanban), and managing teams.

Since 2018 I’ve been talking about OSINT, search methods, and privacy at public events. I was a speaker at large international conferences: leHACK, Osintomatico, KazHackStan and ISS WORLD Europe / Middle East. Also, I prepared and conducted two training courses about open-source intelligence for cybersec students and private investigators. You can check out some of my talks in this YouTube playlist.

In 2020 I founded the OSINT mindset community (first post, first meetup). The community has more than 60K subscribers, 9K members of Investigation Forum, and dozens of active members and speakers in 4 countries and 6 cities. You can watch records of meetup talks on YouTube, listen to OSINT mindset podcasts on various platforms, and read the excellent wiki.

New tools and techniques, the day they are out — on Telegram and X. Longer write-ups go to Substack, and older ones live in my GitHub list of guides and collections.