Chris Araman
Software Engineer, Media Services at Apple
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Araman is a seasoned software engineer and technical leader with 16 years of experience building high-performance, cross-platform applications and distributed systems, currently contributing to Media Services at Apple from San Diego. He combines deep C++ expertise with modern Swift, SwiftUI, and Combine knowledge gained during a recent sabbatical where he authored a well-documented Combine CloudKit package and modernized the widely used mas-cli (used by Homebrew by over 125k users). Chris has led geographically distributed teams across nine time zones, driven engineering process improvements, and reduced crash rates and build times through pragmatic tooling and automation. His open-source contributions include robustness fixes to curl and build-system modernizations, reflecting a focus on reliability, secure CI/CD, and long-lived maintenance. Comfortable shipping both individual components and coordinating vertical slices across organizations, he brings a strong sense of ownership and a habit of refactoring "spaghetti code for fun." Outside of work he’s a language dabbler, music fan and cocktail nerd—details that hint at a curious, iterative approach to craft and problem solving.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Notre Dame
English, Spanish, Arabic
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Github Skills (22)
ssl10
tls1210
http10
c1110
libcurl10
schannel10
tls1310
c1710
homebrew10
macos10
swift10
quicklook9
quick-action9
nimble9
webclient8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mas-cli/mas
Dec 2020 - Dec 2021
:package: Mac App Store command line interface
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:53 reviews, 211 commits, 72 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to updating dependencies and refining the build process for the Mac App Store command-line interface. They updated several dependencies like Nimble, Quick, and Commandant, indicating a focus on maintaining and improving the project's underlying components. Additionally, the user updated the Homebrew formula, the bash completion script, and the Swift formatting.
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curl/curl
Apr 2015 - Feb 2019
A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 19 comments in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on bug fixes and code improvements within the `curl/curl` repository. Their contributions involved addressing issues related to Schannel, DarwinSSL, and overall connection handling. These changes aimed to improve the robustness and stability of the application, including fixing build problems for iOS and resolving memory leaks. They also contributed to TLS shutdown procedures.
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