Chris Kaschner
R&D Product Development Manager at Electronic Theatre Controls
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolChris Kaschner is an engineering leader and R&D product development manager with 20+ years of hands-on experience spanning embedded hardware, manufacturing, and cloud-enabled software delivery. He has built and scaled engineering organizations—doubling teams, creating leveling and promotion frameworks, and coaching multiple engineers into leadership—while driving measurable quality improvements like 50% defect reduction and faster time-to-resolution. Chris blends product-facing program management with deep manufacturing and materials expertise, having designed factories, test fixtures, and mass-production processes as well as ML-enabled pipelines and AWS-based prototypes. He is pragmatic about shipping: from launching a crowdfunded hardware product to migrating production traffic and accelerating CI/CD cadence across enterprise teams. Based in Madison, WI, he pairs technical breadth (controls, CNC, embedded, Python, ML) with proven vendor and budget stewardship to deliver cross-functional products on time and on spec. A less obvious strength is his knack for rapid operationalizing of prototypes—turning research and PoCs into repeatable production processes.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Nanodegree Machine Learning, Nanodegree Machine Learning at UdacityMaster of Science (M.S.) Material Science and Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Material Science and Engineering at Illinois Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.S.) Manufacturing Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Manufacturing Engineering at Kettering University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (27)
python10
statistics10
data-science9
machine-learning9
scikit-learn9
data-analysis9
featuretools8
doodle8
git8
evalml7
rest-api6
jupyter-notebook6
flask6
api6
image-recognition6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
chriskaschner/Udacity_ML_Nanodegree
May 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:110 commits, 2 PRs, 71 pushes in 4 months
submissionspythonnanodegreeudacitydeep-learning
chriskaschner/BabyJounce
Jan 2018 - Feb 2026
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 3 months
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