About

Hi, I’m Chris. I love music, software, books, and defeating death with calm aplomb. I’ve been living in San Francisco since 2001.

For work I develop safer software, with a focus on client-side platforms, often switching between engineer and engineering manager roles as needed. I take a very broad view of what safety can mean. These days I work at Apple on the SPEAR security engineering team. I’ve worked at Tailscale, and at Google on the ChromeOS Security, Fuchsia Security, Chrome Security, Android Framework, and Pixel Security teams. I was a Principal Security Consultant at iSEC Partners (now NCC Group), and a web developer at a couple small shops. Doing linguistics and French literature at university prepared me well for these jobs, weirdly.

I’ve played various musical instruments on various recordings, too.

• Shannon Curtis: Revolutionary Acts Of Optimism
• Invisible End: Color Coded
• Rara Replica: Feral Heart
• Dot Punto.: Hella Telenovela
• Tall Sheep: Of Birds In Propellers
• Dot Punto.: Agua Viva
• Dot Punto.: Histórica

Kayta López-Nichols and I provide the music for the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct, which is an accurate title.