Christopher Bremner
Staff Software Engineer at Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Bremner is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of experience designing and integrating hardware-software systems for automated laboratories and manufacturing. He blends mechanical and electrical design (SolidWorks, PCB layout) with embedded and higher-level software (PLC logic, Python, C#) to build modular robotic workcells, custom sensors, and cloud-connected data pipelines. At Zymergen and Counsyl he led teams delivering production-grade automation—writing drivers for diverse device interfaces, teaching robotic arms, and building scheduling and monitoring software to keep multi-million-dollar stacks running. He contributes to open-source Python tooling for industrial protocols (helping enhance async OPC UA behavior), reflecting a focus on robust, asynchronous integration. Based in Greater Seattle with a biomedical engineering background, he brings a hands-on, cross-disciplinary approach that surfaces practical innovations often missed by purely software or hardware specialists.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Spanish
Github Skills (9)
asynchronous10
develop10
python10
server10
async10
opc-ua10
asyncio10
server-side10
testing9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
FreeOpcUa/opcua-asyncio
Oct 2019 - Nov 2021
OPC UA library for python >= 3.7
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 18 commits, 16 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on enhancing the `opcua-asyncio` library, implementing asynchronous method calls and addressing related issues. They modified core components, including `asyncua/common/methods.py`, to support asynchronous functionality, and added server-side methods. Furthermore, the user fixed immediate publishing in the subscription service and improved overall server stability by handling connection closing and subscription deletion more effectively. They also added methods to the sync Node API.
pythonasyncioopcuaprotocoliec62541
chrisjbremner/opcua-asyncio
Oct 2019 - Jun 2024
OPC UA library for python > 3.6 asyncio
Contributions:64 pushes, 19 branches, 1 comment in 4 years 9 months
pythonasyncioopcuapython-3-6opc-ua
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