Chris Walker

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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.