Hello. My name is Chris. I live in San Francisco. I grew up in Rochester, NY and spent the summers on the beach in Charleston, SC. In the summer of 2007, I accepted a position with Google to work at YouTube, and moved to California. I recently left YouTube to wander aimlessly for a bit. In my spare time, you will find me mountain biking, snowboarding, climbing, or coding.
A list of the tools that I currently use or are otherwise favorites.
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Development Machine - Macbook Pro 13" Code Editor - vim Programming Language - Python Cloud Platform - Amazon AWS Reverse Proxy - nginx Web Server - Tornado Database Server - MongoDB Message Queue - beanstalkd Source Control - git |
Javascript Framework - Prototype CSS Framework - Bootstrap Web Fonts - TypeKit Email App - Sparrow Calendar App - BusyCal Web Browser - Safari Image Editor - Adobe Photoshop Desk - GeekDesk Chair - Steelcase Think |
Work History
Notable Accomplishments
- Flew to Los Angeles to work with The Lonely Island guys on their new website. Built a simple video management platform as well as the public facing site. From start to finish, 5 days of development using Python and Tornado. (The Lonely Island)
- Conceived and built YouTube Feather, an ultra-low latency video page that averages less than 100KB uncached, 30KB cached. (Mashable, ABC News)
- Built and launched the HTML5 video player on YouTube. (Google I/O 2009 Keynote, Techcrunch)
- Built and launched three generations of the front-end to YouTube's browser-based, multiple file uploader with progress bars. (Mashable)
- Responsible for the "Vuvuzela Button" prank on the YouTube video players. (Techcrunch)
- Responsible for the "Actually Good Tab" prank on the YouTube masthead. (Blogoscoped)