Chris Chabot

Building developer ecosystems and developer-focused products

Building critical infrastructure for a more decentralized internet

• → Structured a team of 12 into a cohesive, collaborating success
• → Built data gathering pipelines to measure dev program success
• → Setup marketing programs with newsletters, social media, and video content
• → Created community support structure on Discord, Telegram, GitHub with strict SLA

L1 blockchain that is auto-scaling, decentralized, and affordable

• → Grew /shardeum/shardeum GitHub to 32k stars, the 4th most starred blockchain project
• → Created good-first-issues, managed PRs, source licensing, community management to attract thousands of developers
• → Documented and created sample apps for dApp, JSON-RPC and Node APIs dev docs
• → Onboarded, supported & built custom solutions for 12 exchanges and 8 wallet partners
• → Assisted marketing by building Quest APIs, Tokenomics dashboard & airdrop management
• → Built PoCs for Open Telemetry, gRPC and rewritten binary storage format
• → Managed a team of developer advocates doing worldwide events and content creation
• → Wrote multiplatform & multi architecture installer taking install times from 10 min to 30 sec

Graph database alternative to Neo4j for high-volume enterprise customers

• → Led team of 7 covering content, documentation, samples, SDKs and support
• → Exposed metrics from existing telemetry data, elucidating activation, retention and churn
• → Created dog-food project (BlueSky social feed generator) to find critical issues
• → Created a program to discover success stories & learnings from developers
• → Created a new website that fits with current successful startups
• → Developed messaging that targeted prospects with the highest budgets to spend
• → Reorganized documentation information architecture and created getting started guides
• → Went from 7 qualified enterprise leads at the start to 78

Global conversations platform used by DoorDash, Reddit, Hinge, and PayTM

• → Led a global team of 6 owning all developer facing activities
• → Built and maintained 180+ code samples for iOS, Android and React
• → Created prototypes of new product lines including In-App Notifications platform

Enterprise blockchain platform

• → Led globally distributed team of 12 in HK, London, Mumbai, NYC and SF
• → Created online developer university and certification program
• → Built hosted developer environment using k8s & vscode

• → Took leave from full-time employment to address a serious health issue, now fully resolved
• → Maintained professional engagement through founder mentoring and selective technical exploration
• → Returned to full-time leadership roles with full capacity and long-term availability

Developer ecosystem for Twitter Fabric, Crashlytics and MoPub

• → Ran a globally distributed Developer Relations team
• → Grew the developer ecosystem for the Twitter Fabric mobile platform, Crashlytics and MoPub
• → Drove deals with European VCs and Accelerators
• → Delivered keynotes at mobile industry events and tech conferences
• → Led business development deals with various key mobile platform partners

Social sharing, +1 button, circles, hangouts, identity services

• → Founding member of the Google+ Project
• → Built and led the Google+ Developer Relations team
• → Led global Google+ Platform partner and outreach strategy
• → Led initiative for redesigned developer.google.com experience
• → Drove the Google API technology unification and redesign
• → Authored SDKs, sample apps, and documentation for the Google+ Platform

Public specification for social network APIs used by 14 networks & 400M users

• → Authored the PHP OpenSocial reference implementation (Shindig)
• → Evangelized OpenSocial, personally won 14 partners, ~400M end users
• → Built OpenSocial PHP libraries, SDKs, documentation and sample apps
• → Gave over 60 public presentations, 5 keynotes on OpenSocial, identity & the open web
• → Managed the Open Web standards (OpenID, OAuth, PortableContacts) team

Apache Shindig - OpenSocial reference implementation

• → Committer and Project Management Committee member for Apache Shindig
• → Author of the PHP OpenSocial reference implementation
• → Led OpenSocial 0.8, 0.8.1 and 0.9 specification process

Dutch domain registrar and web hosting platform

• → Pitched mijndomein.nl that the web is better when it's social
• → Led the team that rewrote their blogging platform to become a social driven experience
• → Wrote the PHP OpenSocial reference implementation: Apache Shindig

Cloud hosting and managed services provider

• → Created a JSR-170 style Content Repository System & CMS in PHP
• → Team lead for online TV, video consumption, and Formula-1 experiences & campaigns
• → Created scalable real time Web 2.0 IRC gateway web app powering various open source communities

Web development and e-commerce agency

• → Created high performance Content Management System (PHP & MySQL)
• → Team Lead for ecommerce websites and real-estate management systems
• → Created Web 2.0 web analytics and advertising platforms for national e-commerce and real-estate companies

Digital agency and streaming media company

• → Created the first to (EU) market Web 2.0 Content Management System
• → Created streaming video service 'NoTV' in cooperation with Amsterdam's Internet Exchange
• → Led projects for streaming media and portal systems for national television stations

Digital agency building web platforms

• → Created an in-house CMS system using Apache, PHP/FI 2.0, PostgreSQL & Oracle
• → Used by largest political party's website and the (then) #1 online book store in Europe
• → Tech lead delivering key digital projects

Logistics software for international transport

• → Developed a fuzzy logic planning pipeline & UI for international transport logistics for Sealand, Netloyd and P&O
• → Replaced phone, pen and paper planning with an intelligent automated system
• → Reduced empty container transport moves by 40%, saving hundreds of millions annually