Christopher Born
Staff Engineer at Kolide by 1Password
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorChristopher Born is a staff engineer based in Seattle with two decades of experience building full-stack applications and leading cross-functional teams to improve learning and productivity. He combines hands-on development, systems integration, and product management to deliver practical, auditable solutions across startups and institutions. His background spans higher education, healthcare, and SaaS—most recently steering engineering efforts at Kolide by 1Password after senior roles at Placewise and a long tenure managing systems at Loma Linda University. Christopher is comfortable moving between technical strategy and execution, from risk assessment and administration to shipping features and integrations. Known for clear technical communication and coordination, he brings a pragmatic leadership style that prioritizes measurable impact and team enablement. An understated maker at heart—summed up on GitHub as “Making stuff”—he consistently turns complex requirements into usable tools.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (189)
editor10
coreui10
electron10
typescript10
ruby-saml10
vscode10
visual-studio9
microsoft9
visual-studio-code9
gitbook9
ruby-rails9
identity-provider9
vscode-extension9
asset-pipeline9
uri8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
pelted/coreui-rails
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
Gem to add CoreUI assets to your Rails asset pipeline.
Contributions:26 commits, 4 PRs, 16 pushes in 21 days
ruby-on-railsrails-asset-pipelinecoreuipipelinerails
kolide/saml_idp
Oct 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 release, 13 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year
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