Chris Walker
Security Assessments and Pen Testing
- Role
- Independent Contractor at Self
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Chris Walker
Experienced software engineering lead/architect with strong programming, communication and leadership and mentoring skills, a passion for security, performance and reliability and a proven track record in problem-solving and team-building seeks opportunity to solve intriguing challenges and drive innovation. • Led multiple teams developing and running tests and automation for Windows GUI Test • Designed and coded runtime interpreters for Intel x86 and other processors • Extensive performance enhancements on numerous compilers and interpreters • Started, funded and staffed startup software company, TrueBasic, Inc, leading its team of developers from vision through execution and delivery of a version of BASIC • Drove code quality and defined test strategies in Windows to improve security and reliability through static analysis, training, and process changes Specialties: C/C++, BASIC, MASM, XPL, HTML, ALGOL-60, RPC, PREfast, CMD script, PL/1, FORTRAN, Assembler (various) and SQL. Broad knowledge of algorithms and data structures. Experience with multiple operating systems, including WINDOWS NT, XP, XENIX, WANG-OS, DTSS, MS-DOS, IBM 360, and UNIX. Developed for multiple WIN32 Architectures, including X86, MIPS, ALPHA, PowerPC AND X64.
Experience
Independent Contractor
Jan 2009 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Various smallish security gigs: XBOX console internals, XBOX game (Activision), XBOX Internet Browser, XBOX Live services, WEB properties security assessment for possible acquisition, and medical device security assessment.
Education
Dartmouth College
BA
1969 — 1973
Thayer School of Engineering
BE
Skills
- Fortran
- X86 Assembly
- Vulnerability Research
- Vulnerability Assessment
- Windows
- Penetration Testing
- Web Application Security
- Win32 Api
- Software Engineering
- Code Review
- Unix
- Html
- Masm
- X86
- Windows Server
- Multithreading
- Windows Nt
- Tcp/Ip
- Software Development
- Programming
- Testing
- System Architecture
- Xp
- Pl/1
- Computer Security
- Application Security
- Visual Studio
- Test Automation
- Debugging
- Algorithms
- Network Programming
- Secure Code Review
- Ms-Dos
- Software Design
- Notepad
- Security
- Windows Xp
- C++
- Operating Systems
- Sql
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