Chris Chabot
I'm passionate about driving societal change through technological innovation. With experience leading developer teams at Google, Twitter, Amazon, and early stage startups. Frequent keynote speaker and startup advisor.
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Head of Developer Relations
@ Mysten LabsBuilding 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
VP of Developer Experience
@ ShardeumL1 blockchain that is auto-scaling, decentralized, and affordable
- → Grew /shardeum/shardeum GitHub to 32k stars, the 4th most starred blockchain project
- → Onboarded, supported & built custom solutions for 12 exchanges and 8 wallet partners
- → Managed a team of developer advocates doing worldwide events and content creation
- → Built PoCs for Open Telemetry, gRPC and rewritten binary storage format
Head of Developer Experience
@ MemgraphGraph database alternative to Neo4j for high-volume enterprise customers
- → Led team of 7 covering content, documentation, samples, SDKs and support
- → Created dog-food project (BlueSky social feed generator) to find critical issues
- → Helped go from 7 qualified enterprise leads to 78
- → Raised double the intended amount for next funding round
Head of Developer Advocacy
@ SendbirdGlobal 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
Director of Developer Relations
@ R3 CordaEnterprise 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
Staff Technical Evangelist
@ Amazon AlexaVoice-first user experience platform
- → Gave developers hands-on experience with Alexa
- → Worked with Fortune 500 companies on Alexa integrations
Head of International Developer Relations
@ TwitterDeveloper ecosystem for Twitter Fabric, Crashlytics and MoPub
- → Ran globally distributed Developer Relations team of 12
- → Helped drive the M&A of Crashlytics
- → Drove 30+ deals with major European VCs and Accelerators
- → Delivered keynotes at 18 mobile industry events
Head of Google+ Developer Relations
@ GoogleSocial sharing, +1 button, circles, hangouts, identity services
- → Founding member of the Google+ Project
- → Created and grew Google+ Developer Relations team to 16
- → Led initiative for redesigned developer.google.com
- → Drove Google API unification used by 50+ products
Developer Advocate, OpenSocial
@ GooglePublic specification for social network APIs used by 14 networks & 400M users
- → Authored the PHP OpenSocial reference implementation (Shindig)
- → Evangelized OpenSocial, drove adoption with 14 social networks
- → Spoke at 60+ conferences on OpenSocial and open web standards
- → Led the Open Web standards developer relations team
PMC Member
@ Apache FoundationApache Shindig - OpenSocial reference implementation
- → Committer and Project Management Committee member
- → Chief author of PHP OpenSocial reference implementation
- → Led development of 0.8, 0.8.1 and 0.9 versions of OpenSocial spec
- → Drove collaboration with W3C foundation & IBM
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