Summary
Chris Harper is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of embedded systems experience, fluent in Rust, C, and Python and comfortable across firmware, security, testing, and product architecture. He has led and mentored firmware teams at Generac while also shaping technical direction and making hands-on design decisions for IoT and aviation products. Comfortable bridging hardware and cloud, he frequently analyzes datasheets and architects interfaces between embedded devices and AWS-backed services. Based in Bend, Oregon and balancing a life as a farmer, he sharpens his craft through home projects that push into new languages and problem domains. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, security-minded solutions that tackle both obscure and everyday engineering challenges.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Oregon State University
University of Hawaii at Manoa