Chris Berger

Chris Berger is an accomplished optical software engineering manager at Photon Engineering, LLC, with expertise in high-performance CPU and GPU ray tracing. Since August 2019, Chris has been the lead architect and author of complex optical engineering software products, managing a team of engineers while mentoring them on technical and career development. Prior experience includes serving as a senior systems engineer at Raytheon Missiles & Defense, where Chris developed software tools and performed modeling of electro-optical systems, as well as a manufacturing engineer at Leonardo overseeing laser packaging processes. Chris holds a Graduate Certificate in Nano-scale Material Science from Stanford University, a Master's in Optical Science from the University of Arizona, and a Bachelor's in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from New Mexico State University.