Christopher Tacke
Senior Software Engineer at Elevate Digital
Dyer, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Tacke is a senior software engineer with 16+ years of hands-on experience building end-to-end IoT and embedded systems—from board design and device drivers to cloud back ends and custom ML at the edge. He has led projects across industrial automation, telematics, medical devices, and satellites, pairing low-level firmware and PCB work with scalable cloud infrastructures using technologies like RavenDB, Orleans, Kubernetes, and Cassandra. A longtime C# specialist who also codes in C++, Rust, Java, and Python, he built frameworks to run C# on constrained devices and has deep experience integrating PLCs, MTConnect, OPC, Modbus and vendor-specific machine tool protocols. Comfortable in both consulting and product roles, he combines practical shop-floor know-how (including soldering and PLC ladder logic) with architecture-level thinking to deliver production-ready systems. Notably, he has run ground control ops for an on-orbit payload and prototyped AI/ML predictive-maintenance pipelines for autonomous vehicles, demonstrating a rare blend of field operations and software engineering. Based in Dyer, Indiana, he excels at turning heterogeneous hardware into cohesive, observable systems that operators can control without calling in specialists.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Geology, BA, Geology at University of MontanaMPM, Project Management, MPM, Project Management at Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University
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Github Skills (165)
compact-framework10
xaml10
windows10
command-line-interface10
windows-phone10
visual-studio10
specification10
command-line-tool10
embedded10
iot-application10
linux10
dotnet10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ctacke/mqtt
May 2017 - Nov 2019
OpenNETCF MQTT Library
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 2 years 6 months
mqtt-clientmqttiotmqtt-library
ctacke/sdf
Nov 2014 - Apr 2020
Contributions:16 commits, 6 PRs, 9 pushes in 5 years 6 months
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