Chris Weimer
Principal Firmware Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Weimer is a Principal Firmware Engineer with nine years at Microsoft and over two decades of embedded systems experience, specializing in Linux-based firmware, kernel and driver development. He leads engineering for Project Cerberus, delivering attestable platform security for cloud hardware, and previously shaped U-Boot and kernel verification for Microsoft’s Mt. Olympus platform. Comfortable across the stack from BSPs on Altera and i.MX6 to high-level C/C++ and Python applications, he has repeatedly designed reusable architectures and test-driven pipelines for video and networking products. His background includes low-level MAC drivers for FPGA PHYs, USB/PCI/Ethernet driver maintenance, and hands-on Yocto and build-system integration. Known for blending pragmatic engineering with security-focused platform design, he brings an uncommon combination of firmware craftsmanship and system-level security leadership to cloud hardware.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, 3.6, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, 3.6 at Penn State University
Github Skills (4)
security-testing9
security9
vulnerabilities8
infosec8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
opencomputeproject/Security
Sep 2020 - Oct 2022
Security Project
Contributions:33 reviews, 17 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 2 months
vulnerabilitiessecuritysecurity-testinginfosec
Azure/Project-Cerberus
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:10 reviews, 181 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 10 months
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