$ cat about.md

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.

bash whoami --verbose
name: Chris Chabot
location: London, UK
email: chabotc@gmail.com
linkedin: linkedin.com/in/chabotc
github: github.com/chrischabot
bash cat skills.json | jq '.focus'
[
"Developer Relations Leadership"
"Developer Experience"
"Open Source Strategy"
"API Design & Documentation"
"Community Building"
"Technical Evangelism"
]

$ history | grep "career"

Head of Developer Relations

@ Mysten Labs
Jun 2025 - Present London

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

VP of Developer Experience

@ Shardeum
Jan 2024 - Jun 2025 London

L1 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

@ Memgraph
Apr 2023 - Jan 2024 London

Graph 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

@ Sendbird
Jan 2021 - Apr 2023 London

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

Director of Developer Relations

@ R3 Corda
Mar 2019 - Jan 2021 London

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

Staff Technical Evangelist

@ Amazon Alexa
Feb 2016 - Feb 2019 London

Voice-first user experience platform

  • Gave developers hands-on experience with Alexa
  • Worked with Fortune 500 companies on Alexa integrations

Head of International Developer Relations

@ Twitter
Sep 2013 - Feb 2016 London

Developer 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

@ Google
Mar 2010 - Sep 2013 Mountain View

Social 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

@ Google
Aug 2008 - Mar 2010 Mountain View

Public 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 Foundation
Feb 2008 - Mar 2010 Mountain View

Apache 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
bash cat education.txt
Bachelor of Computer Science
Technical University, Delft, Netherlands
bash ls ~/hobbies/
photography/ # 500px.com/chabotc
writing/
cycling/
hiking/
sailing/
communities/

$ ./contact.sh

Interested in working together or just want to chat about developer relations, open source, or technology? Let's connect.