Christopher White
Senior Software Engineer at CrowdStrike
United States
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Top SchoolChristopher White is a Senior Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience blending embedded Linux/kernel development, device drivers, and tooling for high-assurance security products and NVIDIA Jetson platforms. He pairs deep hands-on C/C++ and systems expertise at CrowdStrike and D3 Engineering with a rare background as a patent agent and inventor—he is named on 53 US patents and has published on AI-patent interactions. An active open-source maintainer and contributor (106 accepted PRs, EditorConfig team member) he improves code, tests, and documentation across projects from EditorConfig Vim integration to OpenSceneGraph and Elixir cross-referencing. Christopher is also a prolific community contributor with 16,500+ Stack Overflow reputation and a track record of finding browser bugs, and he regularly speaks and publishes on IP and technical topics. His mix of legal fluency, R&D engineering, and CI/test automation makes him effective at translating complex technical ideas into robust, production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Rochester Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science with University Honors, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science with University Honors, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (37)
c-language10
python10
vimscript10
openscenegraph10
perl10
vim10
editorconfig10
automated-tests10
cprogramming-language10
opengl10
test-automation10
javascript9
exceptions9
pytest9
vba9
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
editorconfig/editorconfig-vim
May 2019 - Jan 2023
EditorConfig plugin for Vim
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 32 reviews, 30 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on refactoring and improving the core of the editorconfig-vim plugin. They replaced the Python core with a pure Vimscript core, enhancing the plugin's performance and integration with Vim. Significant changes involved adding support for the Vimscript core, including documentation updates and removing support for alternative cores. Furthermore, the user contributed to the build and test processes.
vim-pluginvimeditorconfig-plugineditorconfig
bootlin/elixir
Jan 2020 - Oct 2020
The Elixir Cross Referencer
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 40 commits, 19 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the Elixir Cross Referencer project by adding and improving automated tests. They introduced test helpers, wrote basic tests for the core functionalities of `update.py` and `query.py`, and refactored common test code into a class-based structure to improve maintainability. Furthermore, the user added code to support doc-comment extraction and implemented tests for the web interface and various code constructs, enhancing the project's testing coverage.
elixir
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