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In 2019, Lamb received an award from Google for his work on Reproducible builds within Debian.

In 2018, due to licensing changes to several Redis Labs modules making them no longer free and open source, he forked versions from prior to the license change and now maintains changes to these modules under their original free licenses. Lamb has also been a reviewer and judge for the New York University Tandon School of Engineering's Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW), an annual conference where tens of thousands of students compete in events and learn skills in cyber security in 2017 and 2019.

Succeeding Mehdi Dogguy, Lamb successfully ran for the position of Debian Project Leader in 2017 and 2018. He was re-elected in 2018 and after announcing he would not run for third term he was succeeded by Sam Hartman in April 2019.

In November 2016, Lamb was awarded a grant from the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative to fund his work in this area. In November 2018, he oversaw the Reproducible Builds project joining the Software Freedom Conservancy and in 2019, Lamb received an award from Google for his work on Reproducible builds within Debian including working on making the Debian Installer reproducible.

After graduating with a degree in computer science from the University of Warwick, Lamb joined Playfire, a social networking website for video game players, as Technical Architect. After it was acquired in May 2012, he was a founding employee of fashion startup Thread.com participating in the Y Combinator seed accelerator. In 2015, Lamb left Thread to pursue freelancing. As a freelancer, Lamb has contributed to PureOS, a fully free GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian that has received endorsement from the Free Software Foundation and is shipped on the Librem devices manufactured by Purism, was the lead developer of a number of health care technologies such as MedicSpot, OpenSpirometer and Concept to Clinic, a data science competition to improve the automated detection of lung cancer.

After contributing to the LilyPond packaging in December 2006, he became more involved in the Debian community and the project itself by working on Debian Live via the Google Summer of Code programmme. Early work in Debian revolved around contributing to the Debian Installer as well as the X.org, JavaScript and Python packaging teams. In 2008, he became an official Debian Developer.

Chris Lamb (lamby, born 16 December 1985) is an English free software developer and advocate. He held the position of Debian Project Leader from April 2017 until April 2019. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Open Source Initiative, Software in the Public Interest, the GNOME Advisory Board, the KDE Advisory Board and is a core developer in the Reproducible Builds project which aims to prove that source code has not been tampered with to include backdoors or other malicious code.