Rom Walton
Engineering Leader | Distributed Systems & Security Architecture | 35 Years Building Platform Infrastructure at Scale
- Role
- Senior Software Engineering Manager at Qualys
- Location
- Bellevue, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Rom Walton
Systems software engineer and engineering leader with 35 years of experience building foundational platform infrastructure at scale. Career spans Windows kernel development, distributed computing, cryptography, and enterprise security — from WIN16 to modern C++ on Windows, Linux, and macOS.A primary contributor to BOINC for over a decade — a cross-platform volunteer computing platform coordinating 13M+ devices across 70+ scientific projects including SETI@home, LHC@home, and Rosetta@home. Delivered 20+ major release cycles, designed and shipped a cross-platform GUI, and optimized server infrastructure to achieve 12–18x query performance improvements under multi-million client load.At Qualys, architected and led development of the Cloud Agent platform — now deployed on 105 million devices — and built a Windows kernel driver for File Integrity Monitoring from the ground up. Currently managing a cross-functional international engineering organization while continuing to contribute at the architecture and implementation level.Deep expertise in Windows internals, IPC/RPC, applied cryptography, security architecture, and threat modeling. Equally comfortable writing the threat model and writing the code that addresses it.Online Presences:GitHub Profile: https://github.com/romwOpenHub Profile:
Experience
Senior Software Engineering Manager
Nov 2021 — Present · Bellevue, WA, US
Qualys Cloud Agent is a light-weight agent that that is installed on over 105 million devices which is designed to perform various security related activity such as Vulnerability Management (VM), Policy Compliance (PC), Security Configuration Assessment (SCA), File Integrity Monitoring (FIM), Patch Management (PM), Endpoint Detection and Remediation (EDR).
Education
Western Governors University
Information Technology
Skills
- Leadership
- Virtualization
- C
- Programming
- Html
- Software Engineering
- Application Testing
- Sql
- Linux
- User Interface Design
- Software Project Management
- C++
- Visual Studio
- High Performance Computing
- Databases
- Grid Computing
- Computer Science
- Javascript
- Project Management
- Test Automation
- Xml
- Database Design
- Windows
- C#
- .net
- Oop
- Parallel Computing
- Java
- Team Collaboration
- Algorithms
- Boinc
- Unix
- Android Development
- Enterprise Software
- Data Mining
- Cloud Computing
- Git
- Software Implementation
- Testing
- Mysql
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