Miguel Targa

Miguel Targa is a software engineer and reverse engineer with over a decade in the industry. He is in Google's Bug Hunters Hall of Fame for finding security vulnerabilities and helping fix them, and he created TargaScript, a programming language with its own compiler, bytecode virtual machine and WebAssembly runtime. His personal site, targa.me, is an interactive terminal written in TargaScript.

• Listed in Google's Bug Hunters Hall of Fame for finding security vulnerabilities and helping fix them.
• Created TargaScript, a programming language with a compiler, a bytecode virtual machine, a WebAssembly runtime, a formatter, a test runner, a language server and a playground written in the language itself.
• Wrote targa.me in TargaScript: an interactive terminal with a virtual filesystem, over 150 commands and a small language model that runs in the browser.
• Over a decade in the industry, working across Go, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Kotlin, C#, Java, PHP, Delphi and CFML, on .NET, Android, Lucee and ESP32 hardware.
• Started reading other people's code in Delphi and Pascal at 12; how things work under the hood is still what drives him.
• Writes about peer-to-peer networking, with runnable Rust code, and builds hardware projects like kiddo, a storytelling device for kids.

Projects: TargaScript (A scripting language written in Go. This site runs on it: try targascript), P2P (Article series on peer-to-peer networking, with Rust companion code), kiddo (Interactive storytelling device for kids on an ESP32 touchscreen), TelegramBlockly (Build Telegram bots with a visual block language), SSH-Control (VS Code extension for managing SSH connections).

About Miguel · GitHub · LinkedIn · Google Bug Hunters · TargaScript playground · [email protected]