Elias Bachaalany has been a computer programmer and a software reverse engineer for more than 14 years. Elias is also the co-author of two books published by Wiley, Practical Reverse Engineering and The Antivirus Hacker's Handbook, and the author of Batchography: The Art of Batch Files Programming. He worked with various technologies and programming languages such as web programming, database programming, and Windows device drivers programming (boot loaders and minimal operating systems), and wrote .NET and managed code, wrote scripts, assessed software protections, and wrote reverse engineering and desktop security tools.