Chris Ackerman
Lead Software Engineer at Cisco ThousandEyes
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Ackerman is a seasoned web-focused software engineer and leader with over 20 years of industry experience and more than a decade in hands-on engineering roles. Currently a Lead Software Engineer at Cisco ThousandEyes and founder of BearAuth, he combines enterprise-scale systems experience from Microsoft, Nike, and Qumulo with startup-building instincts. His background spans full-stack web development, validation and automation for hardware and drivers, and even game development and 3D modeling, reflecting a wide technical palette. Chris has moved between individual contributor and management roles, shipping reliable systems while mentoring teams and founding products. Based in Seattle, he brings practical cross-domain expertise—from C#/C++ validation frameworks to modern web stacks—and a penchant for tackling both infrastructure and product problems. A founder with deep engineering roots, he often blends creative side projects with production engineering to solve unconventional challenges.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Portland State UniversityElectrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering at Montana State University-Bozeman
Github Skills (200)
tooling10
npm-package10
styled-components10
emotionjs10
browserify10
jose10
javascript10
theming10
jss10
jwk10
jsonwebtoken10
codesandbox10
imports10
npm-cli10
styled-jsx10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ChrisAckerman/node-express-browserify
Aug 2015 - Feb 2019
Thin browserify middleware for express.
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
expressjsjavascriptexpressthinnodejs
Shakeskeyboarde/slashes
Feb 2020 - Dec 2022
Add or strip backslashes.
Contributions:1 release, 28 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 10 months
strip
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