Chris Palmer
Software Engineering Manager at Apple
United States
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Top SchoolChris Palmer is a software engineering manager and safety-focused platform engineer with 11 years of experience building secure, reliable, and privacy-respecting systems across major products and platforms. He has led and shipped low-level firmware and OS security work at Google and managed security and platform teams at Tailscale and Apple, blending hands-on engineering with people leadership. His background spans Chrome OS, Fuchsia, Pixel security firmware, and networking platforms, demonstrating depth in memory safety and resilient system design. Chris champions technology that serves people first, pairing technical rigor with ethical considerations around respectfulness and privacy. Unusually for a security leader, his academic roots are in linguistics and French, which informs a human-centered approach to complex technical problems. He balances strong product impact at scale with a pragmatic, developer-friendly mindset and a long track record across industry and nonprofit tech roles.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
English, French, German, Latin, marain
Github Skills (200)
programming-language10
testing10
padding10
websocket10
coverage10
interpreter10
tailscale10
wireguard10
security10
eventsource10
fuzzer10
crypto10
portable10
javascript10
vpn10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
noncombatant/syzkaller
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
syzkaller is an unsupervised coverage-guided kernel fuzzer
Contributions:61 pushes, 36 branches in 4 months
kernelcoverage-guidedsecurityunsupervisedfuzzing
noncombatant/dootfiles
May 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:237 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 10 months
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