Kizuno

Reverse engineer & full-stack dev — building game internals since 2014.

Experience

Owner & Full-stack engineerKizuBot

2024 — present · Current

Own and operate a multi-target Tibia botting platform — bot cores, web dashboard, infra, payments, anti-detection layers. Started May 2024, opened to paying customers in October 2024. Main, ongoing project.

  • Designed the customer-side runtime + anti-detection layers behind KizuBot
  • Built the Next.js + MariaDB dashboard at painel.kizubot.com (auth, billing, real-time machine grid)
  • Operated the hardened VM fleet used by remote customers
  • Reverse-engineered private Tibia game-protocol surfaces to keep the platform compatible

Co-founder · Backend & dashboardcoreguard.com.br

2026 — present · Current

Co-founded CoreGuard, an anti-cheat SaaS for OTClient-family clients. Backend + dashboard developer end-to-end (real-time WebSocket protocol, ~50 REST endpoints, multi-tenant auth, production Docker stack, React frontend).

  • Co-founded CoreGuard and shipped the customer-facing dashboard at coreguard.com.br
  • Wires into the inivbt/SentinelCore anti-cheat DLL (per-module signed config, RSA-SHA256, ISRG/LE cert pinning) which I also co-author upstream

Tech lead · OTClient (PokeAlliance)pokealliance.com

2026 — present · Current

Tech lead on the PokeAlliance OTClient — own every layer of the client end-to-end: C++ core optimisations, Lua game scripts, OTUI / module UIs. Modernising and evolving the whole surface.

  • Owning the full client stack: C++ engine perf work, Lua script architecture, OTUI / module UI redesigns
  • Modernised the legacy OTClient UI module set against the PSB design spec while keeping 100% gameplay parity
  • Drove the CoreGuard anti-cheat handshake (opcode 1562 + DLL) and the v2 challenge-response wire (HWID binding, secret-out-of-binary) into the client
  • Set up the Windows CI and the MinGW Linux cross-compile path so contributors can build without MSVC
  • Co-maintainer-level contribution flow on tanjirokamadoserver/PokeAlliance_Client (12+ merged PRs in May 2026 alone)

Security hardening · ZeroBot (NDA)ZeroBot (zerobot.net) · Cjaker

Private engagements

Contracted security-hardening engagement on ZeroBot for Cjaker. Scope: reverse engineering of the launcher + runtime, paired with hardening recommendations delivered as a private report. Findings and dates withheld per agreement.

  • Closed-scope binary-RE + security hardening engagement on the ZeroBot launcher and runtime
  • Deliverable: a private hardening report only the contracting party sees

inivbot cavebot Actions + Recorder (contract)inivbot.com.br

Feb 2026

Built the cavebot Actions language and the Recorder UI for inivbot.com.br on the RubinOT RTC Client.

  • Shipped CheckBless / CheckSupply actions with YES / NO branch routing
  • NPC dialog automation, including boat NPCs and auto-selling item lists
  • Recorder with editable waypoints, auto-record, reorder, and `script.ini` save/play

TFS / C++ engineer · Full-stackbigot.com.br (Baiak 999x)

2023 — 2025

Built and maintained a Baiak 999x Tibia server (mounts, auras, wings) on a heavily modified TFS C++ codebase, plus the game's web portal stack.

  • Shipped new TFS systems in C++ — mounts, auras, wings, custom content pipelines
  • Authored Python codegen for items/monsters/spells (JSON → XML + Lua)
  • Packaged the server as a multi-stage Docker image with MariaDB + Nginx reverse proxy
  • Owned the PHP web portal (big_website) and led its Next.js migration (bigot-next)

OTClient & Tibia network engineer (self-directed)Independent

2016 — 2019

Shipped custom OTClient builds and protocol-level tooling for the Tibia/OTServ community.

  • Authored custom OTClient forks (kizu-otc) tailored for botting/anti-cheat use cases
  • Built socket-level Tibia clients in Rust and TypeScript (tibia-bot-rs, tibia-coins-checker)

Xenobot scripter (Tibia Global)Xenobot.net community

2014 — 2016

Wrote and sold casino/automation scripts on the (then-dominant) Tibia Global botting platform.

  • Earliest commercial dev work; first contact with packet captures and debuggers

Selected projects

YaBoi (Twitch bot, v2)Public Twitch bot focused on 100% human-like behaviour — driven by browser automation (undetected-chromedriver), voice/mention recognition, real cookie sessions.
wppBot (Kizuno18 v1)WhatsApp bot that hit 60k users across 2k groups before Meta forced the upstream lib offline. My JavaScript bootcamp.
luahookInline-hook framework for the Lua C API in statically-linked LuaJIT games.
kizuExDual-platform low-level systems library — anti-VM evasion, binary patching, LuaJIT hooking. Packaged as an LD_PRELOAD shim and a Windows DLL.
tibia-bot-rs9-crate Rust workspace — Tibia protocol, crypto, ECS, scripting. Benchmark: 200 `tibia_socket` processes at 57–71% CPU on a 1 vCore / 2 GB OVH starter.
BIG-OTBaiak 999x Tibia server (bigot.com.br) — modified TFS C++ core with mounts, auras, wings, plus a custom DB-backed servos (companions) system and a legacy-character import pipeline.
kizuno-vmDocker gaming sandbox that runs Windows MMOs on headless Linux with NVIDIA passthrough, Selkies WebRTC streaming, and a 12-vector anti-VM-detection stack plus an inline LuaJIT hook for in-game bot loading.
windows-lab28-step Packer-in-Docker pipeline → one-click Windows 10 IoT LTSC RE lab on Hetzner, ~3–4 min per VM, 20 in parallel, MCP gateway for Claude/Windsurf to drive RE remotely.
coreguard-dash-backend · coreguard.com.brCo-founder + backend & dashboard dev for CoreGuard anti-cheat — coreguard.com.br. Real-time WebSocket protocol, ~50 REST endpoints, multi-tenant auth, production Docker stack.
mongebot-goPrivate pure-API-request viewer bot — Go core + Tauri 2 desktop shell. Production proof: 101 sustained viewers in one Docker container, four-figure broadcast views, real PayPal payouts.
dash-kizubotUser-facing dashboard for KizuBot at painel.kizubot.com — bot config, VNC machine management, Kizu Assistant (Gemini), live GridView, hunting stats.
zap-botWhatsApp automation SaaS with atomic warm-up, spintax, and RLS-per-table.
bigot-nextGesior → Next.js 16 rewrite of the bigot.com.br portal (Jan 2026) with a browser-native ItemEditor + SPR + ObjectBuilder rolled into a single ~99% ObjectBuilder-parity admin tool.
kizumetricsFirst-party server-side conversion gateway on Cloudflare Workers — 4-worker monorepo fanning conversions out to 9 vendor CAPI/EAPI endpoints with same-origin first-party hosting, 7d dedupe, 90d click-ID attribution.

Also shipped: mehah/otclient · Bot V8 sponsor · tsBigNew · Tibia 8.60 socket bot (Rust) · inivzap-bot · kizubot · kizu-otc · coreguard-launcher · tibia-coins-checker · monitoring-environment · lp-pascoagrana · Páscoa com Grana 2026 · playwright-audio-captcha-solver · windows-reversing · inivbot · cavebot Actions + Recorder · lp-kizubot · kizubot.com landing · api-server-kizubot · KizuBot core API · alarm-panel · WhatsApp Alarm SaaS · alarm-kizubot · notification service · rtc · personal RubinOT Lua modules · kizu-llm

Skills

Reverse engineeringC / C++ · Lua C API hooking (LuaJIT 2.0 / 2.1) · x86 / x64 inline hooks · Ghidra · IDA Pro · x64dbg · OllyDbg · Fiddler · mitmproxy · packet capture · Windows internals (.pdb, RTTI, loaded modules, named pipes) · Wine / Bottles tooling · Tibia game protocol · Twitch GQL · IRC · web crypto · Browser automation (Playwright · undetected-chromedriver)
SystemsLinux LD_PRELOAD · Windows DLL injection · Tauri 2 · Docker · Compose · qcow2 / KVM · Cloudflare Tunnel
BackendTypeScript · Node.js · Rust · Go · Python · Java (Minecraft Forge era) · PHP · PostgreSQL · MySQL
FrontendNext.js (App Router) · React · Tauri 2 desktop · Tailwind CSS · shadcn/ui
Infra & opsVercel · Cloudflare · Docker Compose · Prometheus · Grafana · PM2 · systemd · Stripe billing · Baileys (WhatsApp) · BGP · IX.br · Datacenter colocation (Ascenty SP4) · Link / port capacity, redundancy design

Timeline highlights

2014Tibia casino scripts on Xenobot.net
2015–2017Apprenticed under Cjaker
2015–2017Modded Minecraft — Java + server internals
2016–2019OTClient + Tibia network internals
2017–2019Custom ElfBot for HeroesOT (built from scratch)
2018First exploit — accidental SQLi on HeroesOT
2019First reverse-engineering project
2019ExpertHax / Digimon Masters Online — payload-side cracking
2022–2024Twitch 360 bot · YaBoi + mongebot
Mar 2023wppBot · 60k users · learned JavaScript
May 2023Massive Botting · Mineração (Demolidores)
2023Baileys migration · JavaScript → TypeScript across the stack
2023Ghidra deep-dive with Sharingan, Luckez & Ryanzin
2023Docker pipeline for OTServ — learned from marcoshps11
Aug 2023bigot.com.br · TFS C++ (2023–2025)
Oct 2023baiak-icewar spoof spike — listing-fraud demo
Nov 2023Sponsored Bot V8 port to mehah/otclient
May 2024KizuBot launch
2024IDA Pro with Caio Cesar
2024–2025Anti-cheat, Rust, infra at scale
2025Network + datacenter infra — mentored by hosters
Early 2025Next.js · dash-kizubot
2025inivbot RE engagement — one-month deep-dive
2026ElfBot ported from Lua to C++ (otclient-redemption)
Jan 2026Gesior → Next.js 16 (BigOT portal)
2026Reverse-engineering as a product