# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-peslyak
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:41:37.254Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-peslyak"
name: "Alexander Peslyak"
slug: "alexander-peslyak"
description: "Alexander Peslyak, better known as Solar Designer, is a security specialist from Russia. He is best known for his publications on exploitation techniques, including the return-to-libc attack and the first generic heap-based buffer overflow exploitation technique, as well as computer security protection techniques such as privilege separation for daemon processes."
tagline: "Russian computer security specialist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Solar_designer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1977"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.278366666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Designer"
    title: "Solar Designer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%8A%D1%80_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%BA"
    title: "Александър Песляк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Designer"
    title: "Solar Designer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Pieslak"
    title: "Aleksandr Pieslak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Designer"
    title: "Solar Designer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Peslyak"
    title: "Alexander Peslyak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q615637"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump