Adam Sindelar
Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Sindelar is a seasoned software and security engineering leader with 12 years of experience building kernel- and OS-level defenses, endpoint security, and incident response across Google, Meta, Databricks and now Anthropic. He has led cross-site teams shipping production kernel monitoring, eBPF-based LSM work, and the open-source Santa project, and contributed notable memory-forensics improvements to Rekall for macOS/Darwin. Equally comfortable as a hands-on systems architect and a manager, he has driven secure design for on-device agentic AI and high-level OS security models (AOSP/SELinux) for consumer AR/VR platforms. His background in digital forensics and SOC operations informs a pragmatic approach to detection, threat hunting and product security reviews for internal AI/LLM apps. Based in Zurich, he also maintains newer projects under the wowsignal-io GitHub org, signaling an ongoing interest in applied security tooling. He pairs deep low-level expertise with experience scaling teams and open-source tooling adoption across industry peers.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Astronomy and Planetary Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Astronomy and Planetary Science at The Open University
Github Skills (11)
memory-dump10
python10
architecture9
architectures9
system9
datastructures-algorithms8
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
reverse-engineering8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
google/rekall
Jan 2014 - May 2016
Rekall Memory Forensic Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:2 reviews, 111 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Adam was involved in the development and refactoring of the Rekall memory forensic framework's capabilities for the Darwin/XNU operating system. They added new plugins and functionalities related to memory analysis, including the KASLR slide finder and the DTB finder, and also refactored and improved existing plugins. Furthermore, they worked on improving the performance and robustness of the core tools by implementing a search function and a data model. These efforts suggest a focus on improving the tool's ability to analyze live or acquired memory images.
javaforensicmemory
wowsignal-io/pedro
Aug 2023 - May 2026
Pet EDR Operation - A lightweight, open source EDR for Linux
Contributions:6 reviews, 337 PRs, 233 pushes in 2 years 9 months
linux
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