Chabot’s Cabinet

Specimens, plates, and observations · N° LIV

Of the Proprietor.

Chris Chabot — developer-relations practitioner, systems builder, open-web veteran, reader, walker, and maker of long notes from London.


Pen-and-ink portrait plate with notebooks, pen, route card, and system notes
Homo notator chiltern. The proprietor in his natural habitat — notebook, pen, and the long marginalia of London.

Chris has built and led developer programmes across Google, Twitter, Apache, Web3 infrastructure companies, and AI-focused developer products. His work sits where product, documentation, community, ecosystem strategy, and technical credibility meet.

This cabinet is a personal collection rather than a portfolio. The proprietor observes the modern computational order — coding agents, developer programmes, identity systems, canals, weather, cloth, and footwear — and files each as a plate added to the catalogue.

Correspondence — chabotc@gmail.com, github.com/chrischabot, linkedin.com/in/chabotc.


A working life, in plates

  1. 2026.

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

  2. 2025.

    Led developer relations work across infrastructure, community support, measurement, and partner enablement.

  3. 2014.

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

  4. 2010.

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

  5. 2008.

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

  6. 1994.

    Started building software professionally in Rotterdam, long before the web learned to behave itself.

Pen-and-ink tailpiece — closed notebook, cord, pressed leaf, pen