Summary
Christopher Cavage is a senior engineering leader with over two decades in software and firmware, including more than a decade building and scaling cross-functional teams and commercial products. Currently Sr. Director of Engineering at Axon, he leads global platform and firmware efforts that power video-capable devices, batteries, cellular, and robotics middleware while owning secure manufacturing firmware practices. He blends deep hands-on embedded systems experience (MCUs, SoCs, RTOS/eLinux) with program- and budget-level leadership, driving hiring, fiscal planning, and cross-functional initiatives that enabled major battery and wireless milestones. Christopher is known for translating complex security and manufacturing constraints into production-ready firmware infrastructure and for rapidly forming new engineering hubs across geographies. He has a track record of moving organizations from single-product engineering to subscription and cloud-enabled IoT platforms, and he enjoys rolling up his sleeves to contribute technically when needed.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science College of Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science College of Engineering at Penn State University