Don Kackman
Director Solution Delivery & Data
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolDon Kackman is a seasoned technology leader with 24+ years in software delivery and 12 years in senior leadership, currently directing Solution Delivery & Data at Red Wing Shoe Co. and serving as Senior Director of Software Development at Starkey Hearing Technologies. He has deep expertise in medical device software, ISO 13485-regulated product development, and end-to-end application portfolios including CRM, manufacturing systems, integrations, and data warehousing. Known for combining hands-on engineering with strategic delivery, he has progressed from software engineer to director while leading continuous improvement initiatives across product and IT teams. An active contributor to open-source projects like the Chia blockchain, he has applied performance tuning and observability improvements in high-throughput Python code. With a BS in Environmental Science from the University of Minnesota, he brings a systems-thinking mindset and pragmatic leadership to complex regulated environments.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Environmental Science, Bachelor of Science Environmental Science at University of Minnesota
English
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Github Skills (23)
python10
blockchain10
c-language9
debugging9
dynamic9
operator9
cprogramming-language9
xml9
oracle9
data-structures8
data-structure8
algorithms8
algorithm8
build-automation7
project-planning6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Chia-Network/chia-blockchain
Feb 2020 - Jul 2022
Chia blockchain python implementation (full node, farmer, harvester, timelord, and wallet)
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 58 commits, 44 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Don primarily focused on improving the codebase by implementing performance enhancements and addressing potential issues through code modifications. Their work involved logging timestamps in key phases of the plotter code, enabling more effective monitoring. In addition, they fixed warnings and other coding issues by modifying and improving various parts of the codebase and build scripts.
chia-blockchainpythonwalletspython-blockchainwallet
dkackman/chiaSWARM
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
Distributed GPU compute
Contributions:12 releases, 3 reviews, 176 commits in 3 months
cudagpu-accelerationgpugpgpucompute
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