Chris Carman
Lead Automation Engineer
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Summary
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RockstarChris Carman is a Lead Automation Engineer based in Lexington, Kentucky with 11 years of hands-on experience in QA, test automation, and backend fixes across enterprise and consulting environments. He has progressed from long-term embedded testing roles at Lexmark to senior QA positions at Galmont/SQS and Trissential before leading automation efforts at FinThrive, blending deep testing discipline with pragmatic engineering leadership. Chris contributes to open-source maintenance work—fixing bugs and improving stability in the popular openHAB 1.x add-ons—demonstrating attention to detail in both configuration and code. Known for steady delivery in regulated and quality-focused teams, he pairs practical automation strategy with an ability to improve legacy systems incrementally.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (6)
javas10
debug10
java10
git8
configuration-file7
configurations7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
openhab/openhab1-addons
Apr 2015 - Jan 2020
Add-ons for openHAB 1.x
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:172 commits, 471 PRs, 324 pushes in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Chris's commits primarily involved bug fixes and improvements to the code base. They addressed an issue in a `if` statement, corrected an error message by replacing a special character with an apostrophe, and merged updates from the upstream master branch. The user also made some adjustments to existing configuration files.
add-onsopenhabaddononsinternet-of-things
9037568/smarthome
Feb 2016 - Feb 2019
Eclipse SmartHome project
Contributions:57 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years
javaeclipsesmarthome
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