Michael Tot

At Diverge Networks, I’m the sole developer of a live multiplayer platform, taking work from specification to production across two codebases. I’ve closed exploits including item duplication caused by a race condition, item teleportation, and forged fingerprint data.

I design around the client-to-server trust boundary, validating every player action on the server. I’ve also worked directly against players actively hunting for exploits on a live server.

When I took over an unfinished plugin, I built a detective system with persistent forensic evidence and searchable case files. I also rewrote phones and radios and moved plugin data to MySQL, migrating vehicle storage without losing an item.

I co-built Dojo Arena, a V Rising PvP arena mod, then rewrote it alone and released it publicly. My work also includes Luminol, a C# deobfuscator for auditing Lua addons, and fixes to deferred-lua and NutScript.