Adam Sindelar - One Page Resume
adam@wowsignal.io – LinkedIn – Github – Latest PDF of this CV – Zürich, Switzerland
I’m a security software engineer and sometimes manager with 18 years of experience (7 in management). I specialize in Detection & Response and OS security. I contribute to the Linux Kernel, Google Santa and Pedro. I have also worked on eBPF, digital forensics, the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), memory forensics, physics and distributed data systems. I am proficient in Go, Python, Rust and C/C++. A longer CV, with older experience and education is available.
Recent Work History
2023 - Present / Experiments in Stealth Mode / Software Engineer
Working in a small group on a new endpoint security concept. Likely to yield an OSS project.
- Beat existing Endpoint Security tools on CPU performance by a factor of 10-100x
2023 / Databricks / Senior Manager, Product Security
Senior Tech-Lead-Manager (TLM) for various product security projects.
- Leading Large Language Model (AI LLM) security review
- Supporting security incident response, secure architecture, CIO
2022 - 2023 / Meta Reality Labs / Software Engineering Manager, VR Operating System
- Multi-year roadmap to keep the OS up to date with upstream Android
- Stabilized two teams that lost their managers, trained & promoted a new manager
- Conducted a security review of the OS
2019 - 2022 / Google / Engineering Manager, Endpoint Security
Started and led the Endpoint Security team.
- Managed well-known open source projects Santa and KRSI
- Grew two teams (Zurich and NYC) to total 12 SWE, including 3 leads (Staff / Manager)
- Awarded (with 2 others) Google Feats of Engineering 2020 for eBPF security work
2013 - 2019 / Google / Software and Security Engineer
Worked in Incident Response and Digital Forensics, specializing in Memory Forensics.
- Built a memory acquisition driver for macOS (open source)
- Handled security incidents as primary on-call for all of Google
Previous experience: security engineering and management at ING and Accenture, freelance.
Education
2017 - present / Open University / Astronomy and Planetary Science