CHABOT

Chris Chabot

I build developer platforms and agent systems. I have led Developer Relations at Google and Twitter, worked on chain infrastructure at Mysten Labs, contributed to Apache and open standards, and still write code for the tools I discuss.

Worked across

  • Google+ founding DevRel team
  • Twitter international DevRel
  • Fabric mobile platform partners
  • Crashlytics developer ecosystem work
  • MoPub mobile partner work
  • Mysten Labs / Sui chain developer ecosystem
  • Apache Shindig PMC and committer
  • OpenSocial specification co-author
  • OAuth 2.0 authorization framework
  • OpenID Connect identity layer
  • OpenAPI API description standard
  • iGent AI-native developer products

Most of my work has involved APIs, documentation, SDKs, community systems, partner programmes, metrics, and the engineering details that decide whether developers can use a product successfully.

At Google+ and Twitter, that meant platform-scale developer work. At Mysten Labs, it meant helping chain infrastructure become legible and buildable for outside developers. In Apache and standards work, it meant shared contracts. In current AI work, it means tools and runtimes that leave enough state behind to be inspected.

I am most useful when I can build and explain the product, find where developers get stuck, and use that evidence to improve it.

What connects the work

I work on the parts of a technical system that outside developers must trust, adopt, debug, and extend.

developer-facing systems

Platform scale

Google+, Twitter, Fabric, Crashlytics, MoPub, Mysten Labs, Sui, and mobile platform partners.

Shared contracts

Apache Shindig, OpenSocial, Portable Contacts, OAuth, OpenID Connect, and OpenAPI work.

Current technical depth

Hands-on work in local agent systems, native runtimes, memory, search, research pipelines, and developer tools.

Developer ecosystems

Docs, partner enablement, community systems, activation loops, and measurement.

Major platform work

Selected work across social platforms, mobile developer ecosystems, identity and API contracts, and chain infrastructure.

Google+

google · social platform · developer ecosystem

Founding member of the Google+ project and head of its developer relations team, working on the developer-facing side of a large social platform launch.

Twitter, Fabric, Crashlytics, and MoPub

twitter · mobile platform · international devrel

Head of International Developer Relations at Twitter, working across the Twitter developer ecosystem, Fabric, Crashlytics, MoPub, mobile platform partners, and regional developer programmes.

OpenSocial and Apache Shindig

opensocial · apache · reference implementation

Co-authored the OpenSocial API specification and was chief author of the PHP reference implementation for Apache Shindig, with PMC and committer work around the project.

OpenID Connect, OAuth, Portable Contacts, and OpenAPI

identity · authorization · api contracts

Contributed to standards and specifications that shaped modern identity, authorization, contact-data exchange, API documentation, and developer-facing interoperability.

Mysten Labs and Sui

web3 infrastructure · chain ecosystem · developer adoption

Developer ecosystem work around chain infrastructure: documentation, examples, community and partner work, and the practical path from infrastructure to working applications.

Career map

  • 2026

    Head of Developer Relations at iGent, working on developer ecosystems and AI-native developer products.

  • 2025

    Developer-relations leadership across infrastructure, community support, measurement, and partner enablement.

  • 2014

    Head of International Developer Relations at Twitter, working across Fabric, Crashlytics, MoPub, and mobile platform partners.

  • 2010

    Founding member of the Google+ project and head of its developer relations team.

  • 2008

    Developer advocate for OpenSocial, Apache Shindig committer, and contributor to open-web identity standards.

  • 1994

    Started building software professionally in Rotterdam.

Good fits

AI agent infrastructure

Roles where agents need durable state, tool boundaries, source handling, local runtimes, and recovery behavior that can be inspected.

Developer platforms

Products where APIs, SDKs, docs, local development, examples, and adoption loops have to work as one surface.

DevRel leadership

Teams that need technical credibility, sharper measurement, better product feedback loops, and public work that developers trust.

Contact

I am based in London and interested in senior roles around developer platforms, agent infrastructure, developer experience, and technical product work where credibility depends on building as well as explaining.

Chris Chabot · London