Christopher Cacciatore
Software Engineer III - Team Lead at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Cacciatore is a Software Engineer III and team lead based in Seattle with 16 years of experience building data-driven systems and mentoring engineers to deploy AI applications in the cloud. He blends strong data-science tooling—Pandas, XGBoost, FastAI—with production data engineering expertise from streaming and warehousing projects at PNNL and analytics work at AWS. His background spans academic research in geosciences and practical data science for education, giving him a knack for translating complex model outputs into actionable pipelines. An active open-source contributor, he has improved the cc65 C compiler test suite and tooling, demonstrating attention to low-level correctness alongside high-level ML workflows. Known for pragmatic leadership, he pairs hands-on coding with coaching to move experimental models into reliable, auditable systems.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) - National Science Foundation: Graduate Research Fellow, Geosciences, Master of Science (M.S.) - National Science Foundation: Graduate Research Fellow, Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (10)
c1710
compiler-design10
c1110
testing10
assemble9
assembler9
computer-engineering9
assembly9
build-system8
debugging8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cc65/cc65
Aug 2016 - May 2020
cc65 - a freeware C compiler for 6502 based systems
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 6 PRs, 22 comments in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the cc65 compiler project by addressing bugs and adding new features. Their work includes fixing pointer type incompatibilities and test negations. Furthermore, the user has made changes to ensure all programs print the version and exit successfully, enhancing the usability of the compiler tools. The user also added Duff's Device and implemented empty bodied switch statements to the test suite, which improves the testing coverage.
6502c-compiler
cacciatc/happiNES-dev
Feb 2011 - May 2011
Contributions:82 commits, 19 issues in 3 months
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