Chris Evans
Security Engineer at Databricks
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Evans is a Security Engineer with 14 years of experience applying deep operating-systems and software development expertise to vulnerability research, reverse engineering, and security tooling. He has led cross-organizational efforts at Google to reverse-engineer malware and harden analysis pipelines for Flutter/Dart native binaries, and now applies that expertise to security at Databricks. His background spans embedded TrustZone exploitation, kernel and driver auditing, symbolic execution and taint-based tooling, and major contributions to ARM64 support in binary-lifting projects. Chris also developed tooling to inspect AOT snapshots in the Dart SDK, demonstrating a practical focus on compiler/VM internals as they intersect with security. Known for pragmatic craftsmanship (and a tendency to enable Vim keybindings everywhere), he combines research rigor with production-ready engineering to find and mitigate complex attack vectors. Based in London, he brings both offensive and defensive perspectives that accelerate hard-to-reproduce vulnerability discovery and remediation.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Highschool Diploma, Highschool Diploma at American School of DubaiBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Religion Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Religion Computer Science at Columbia University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
compiler10
dart10
internals10
sdk10
vms10
aot10
compile10
programming-language9
lang9
testing7
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
dart-lang/sdk
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
The Dart SDK, including the VM, JS and Wasm compilers, analysis, core libraries, and more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 comments, 1 issue in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris's commits primarily focus on the development of a tool, `analyze_snapshot`, for inspecting AOT (Ahead-of-Time) snapshots within the Dart SDK. This involves creating and maintaining tools to analyze compiled artifacts, specifically targeting interactions between Dart compilation, the Dart SDK, and Flutter Engine. The contributions also include fixes related to memory leaks and build configurations, ensuring the tool's functionality and compatibility within the broader SDK ecosystem. The user's work demonstrates a focus on the Dart VM internals.
dartsdkdart2jscore-librariesflutter
perks/data-visualizations
Oct 2013 - Jun 2015
Contributions:11 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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