Chris Paterson
Senior Software Engineer at Adobe
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Paterson is a senior software engineer based in Seattle with nine years of experience building product-focused front-end and platform solutions, currently contributing at Adobe. He excels at turning ambiguous requirements into clear technical scopes and has led and mentored engineering teams while architecting consent/privacy infrastructure used across the ad industry. At Conversant he was principal author and technical representative for the IAB Tech Lab’s TCF spec, authored widely adopted open-source TCF encoders, and earned multiple industry service awards—demonstrating both domain expertise and standards-level influence. His background spans modern TypeScript/Vue front-end systems and legacy-rich Flash-era UI work, giving him an unusual depth in UI engineering and performance-minded API design. Colleagues describe him as a creative, collaborative leader who pairs product sensitivity with pragmatic implementation.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts - AA, Fine/Studio Arts, General, Associate of Arts - AA, Fine/Studio Arts, General at Moorpark CollegeBachelor of Arts - BA, Fine/Studio Arts, General, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Fine/Studio Arts, General at California State University Channel Islands
English
Github Skills (69)
lit-element10
backbonejs10
iab10
data-protection10
lit10
lit-html10
gdpr10
cmp10
transparency10
advertising10
ccpa10
plugin10
privacy10
api9
tslint9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
InteractiveAdvertisingBureau/iabtcf-es
Sep 2019 - Oct 2020
Official compliant tool suite for implementing the Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) v2.0. The essential toolkit for CMPs.
Contributions:11 reviews, 559 commits, 56 PRs in 1 year
gdpr-compliantconsent-frameworktransparency-and-consent-frameworktcfconsent
InteractiveAdvertisingBureau/Consent-String-SDK-JS
Apr 2018 - Oct 2019
Transparency and Consent Framework v1.1 Consent String SDK - javascript
Contributions:17 PRs, 25 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 6 months
javascript
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