Christopher Ferris
Chief Technology Officer at IBM
Boynton Beach, Florida, United States
Summary
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RockstarChristopher Ferris is a veteran technology leader and CTO with a 38+ year career focused on distributed systems, open standards, and open source, formerly an IBM Fellow and IBM's CTO for Open Technology. He drives enterprise open-source strategy and technical leadership across major projects including Hyperledger (where he chaired the Technical Steering Committee and contributes to Fabric), Apache, Kafka, CNCF, OCI, and Docker, and leads engineering teams that embed those technologies across IBM. His work spans deep protocol standards—co-chairing W3C working groups that produced SOAP1.2 and WS-Policy—and practical blockchain implementations, contributing code and tests to Hyperledger Fabric, Fabric CA, and fabric-samples. Based in Boynton Beach, FL, he combines standards-level influence with hands-on contributions (from chaincode and core consensus fixes to front-end updates on IBM’s open source site), uniquely bridging formal specification work and production engineering.
12 years of coding experience
English
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Github Skills (34)
chaincode10
javascript10
cert10
validations10
scripting10
open-source10
validation10
script10
certificate10
go10
cryptography10
blockchain10
sh10
error-handling10
shell10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
IBM/ibm.github.io
Feb 2014 - Nov 2018
IBM Open Source at GitHub
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:62 commits, 56 PRs, 47 pushes in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily updated the `index.html` and `orgs.js` files, contributing to the front-end and data configuration of the IBM Open Source website. They removed and added organizations from the `orgs.js` file, and made changes to UI elements in `index.html` like button styling and the search functionality. The user also made modifications to the site's UI by adding, removing, or modifying elements.
ibm
hyperledger-archives/fabric
Feb 2016 - Aug 2016
THIS IS A READ-ONLY historic repository. Current development is at https://gerrit.hyperledger.org/r/#/admin/projects/fabric . pull requests not accepted
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:64 commits, 68 PRs, 2 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Christopher contributed to the Hyperledger Fabric project by merging remote-tracking branches and adding error checks in core modules. They made modifications to the chaincode, including example code and associated tests. Their work involved changes to core chaincode handler, event, and consensus modules, indicating a focus on the core functionality and stability of the Fabric platform.
hyperledgeradminfabricblockchainpull-requests
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