About

Christopher Koch is a Senior Software Engineer at Google with over 8 years of relevant experience. He is involved in work on firmware, Linux kernel, security, sandboxing, and containers. Currently, he is leading a team to build every aspect of new firmware attestation infrastructure for Platform Security at Google. Before his current role, Christopher worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Google, where he engineered boot and firmware security architecture for Google's data center servers. He also worked on improving the state of x86 firmware internally and externally using LinuxBoot, where he led a small team productionizing LinuxBoot and u-root firmware for Google's data center servers, plugging chain of trust and firmware maintainability gaps. He was also a tech lead, speaker, developer, and upstream maintainer for this project. Christopher has also worked on gVisor sandbox, where he engineered userspace kernel features such as file systems, time subsystem, code health, observability, AppEngine integration, and production debugging. Christopher holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. His education history shows that he completed his degree in 2015. Christopher's tech stack includes Software Engineer, infra, Senior Software Engineer, and Integration. With his vast experience and expertise, Christopher is an asset to any team he works with.