Chris Wailes
Senior Technical Recruiter at CrowdStrike
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Wailes is a Senior Technical Recruiter with 15 years placing engineering and DevOps talent across cybersecurity and gaming industries, currently hiring for CrowdStrike’s cloud-native protection platform from Irvine, CA. He blends hands-on technical sourcing with deep familiarity of system-level engineering—evidenced by past contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Clang and multiple AOSP repositories where he worked on compiler analyses, linker optimizations, and build-system integration. Chris has led recruiting teams and focused hires in Data Science, DevOps, QA, and Software Engineering at fast-growing companies like Cylance and MobilityWare, giving him a strong sense of technical culture fit across startups and enterprise. He pairs a BS in Economics and Justice Studies with practical experience navigating complex technical roles, and his background contributing to low-level tooling gives him uncommon credibility when evaluating systems and compiler engineers.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Economics, Justice Studies, BS, Economics, Justice Studies at Arizona State UniversityDiploma, Diploma at Foothill High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
filesystem10
c-language10
static-analysis10
system-programming10
memory-management10
attribute10
compiler-design10
linker10
android10
rust10
cprogramming-language10
system-design9
build-system9
init9
sys9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
aosp-mirror/platform_build
Oct 2020 - Jun 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:65 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Chris's contributions primarily involve modifying build configurations and system properties related to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). They introduced and modified system properties to control features like compiler filters for dexopt and properties related to the Unspecialized App Process Pool. Additionally, the user merged in changes that added the service-art JAR to the System Server classpath, and updating init.rc prebuilt handling, showcasing an understanding of system-level configurations. The changes touch multiple core areas of the AOSP build process.
aosp-mirror/platform_system_core
Nov 2018 - Apr 2022
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:18 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the core system functionalities of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) by adding and merging changes related to the ARTD user and snapshot merge process. These changes include modifying file system configurations, updating system tools related to snapshot management, and implementing state transitions for a merge process. The commits demonstrate involvement in system-level operations. The user's work involves system-level operations and modification of system files.
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