Chris Abernethy
Chief Information Security Officer
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolChris Abernethy is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Information Security Officer based in Chapel Hill with over two decades of engineering experience and 12 years in senior leadership roles. He has transitioned from hands-on systems and LAMP-stack architecture to leading security and platform strategy for Tradeverifyd, a supply-chain risk and visibility platform, where he helped evolve the product through a company rebrand. Chris blends deep operational knowledge—Linux administration, cloud deployments on AWS and Rackspace, and real-time SaaS systems—with strategic security stewardship, designing privacy-preserving architectures and objective supplier scoring. He has a track record of scaling infrastructure for e-commerce and SaaS, guiding teams from code to production across multiple hosting models. Notably, his career spans both startup grit and enterprise-grade reliability, having run his own systems practice while leading architecture for high-traffic web platforms. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Boston University and brings a pragmatic, risk-aware approach to building resilient distributed systems.
12 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Boston University
German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (157)
google-analytics10
http10
authentication10
security10
verifiable-credentials10
firebase10
multiarch10
traceability10
firebase-analytics10
matomo10
decentralized-identifiers10
intranet10
analytics10
vocabulary10
android-app10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
capacitor-community/firebase-analytics
Oct 2020 - Jan 2022
Enable Firebase Analytics for Capacitor Apps
Contributions:15 releases, 9 reviews, 78 commits in 1 year 3 months
firebase-analyticscapacitorfirebaseanalyticsplugin
mesur-io/traceability-interop
Nov 2021 - Jul 2022
Verifiable Credentials for Supply Chain Interoperability Specification for HTTP
Contributions:51 pushes, 30 branches in 7 months
verifiablessisignspecificationsupply-chain
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