Zach Childers
Lead Software Engineer at Hadrian
California, United States
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Top SchoolZach Childers is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building secure, high-performance systems for millions to billions of users, currently driving engineering at Hadrian after a successful acquisition. He combines deep systems and security expertise—Rust, Go, modern C++, cloud-native infrastructure, and compliance frameworks like CMMC/FedRAMP—with hands-on leadership that turns roadmaps into scalable products. At Datum Source he led a senior team to market-leading status by architecting enterprise-grade SSO/IAM and LLM-driven automation that cut manual work 10x and improved accuracy while meeting strict regulatory controls. At Microsoft he rewrote and re-architected SmartScreen across platforms to dramatically reduce bugs and memory issues and enable deployment from browser to kernel. Proud of deleting more code than he’s written, Zach favors principled engineering and pragmatic automation to accelerate delivery without sacrificing security.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Cybersecurity, Master's degree Cybersecurity at UC Berkeley School of InformationBachelor of Science (B.S.) Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Software Engineering at University of Silicon Valley
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Github Skills (85)
windows10
netcore10
linux10
powershell10
shell10
command-line10
validation9
rust9
compiler9
wsl29
macos9
azure-devops8
rust-lang8
logging8
standard-library8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
zachChilders/just-add-water
Jul 2019 - Dec 2019
ZeroConf Secure Infra for SMBs
Contributions:69 commits, 59 PRs, 122 pushes in 4 months
securesecurityfirecrackerinfrazeroconf
zachChilders/deanonymization
Feb 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:23 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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