Chris Benoit is a senior iOS engineering leader with 15 years of experience building and scaling complex mobile applications, now serving as Senior Director of iOS Development at RBC in Toronto. He combines a product-focused mindset with pragmatic processes and tools to lead large teams from embedded and mobile engineering roots through principal-level architecture work. His background includes leadership roles at Autodesk and Logitech, giving him deep experience across embedded systems, desktop-class engineering, and consumer mobile. Beyond management, Chris contributes to open-source projects—improving documentation and back-end setup for widely used tools like Gunicorn—demonstrating attention to developer experience and operational detail.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.Eng, Software Engineering & Society, B.Eng, Software Engineering & Society at McMaster University
gunicorn 'Green Unicorn' is a WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX, fast clients and sleepy applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:18 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to documentation updates and code improvements. They updated documentation in HTML, reStructuredText, and CSS files, indicating a focus on maintaining and improving the project's documentation. Further contributions involved modifications to the Django application setup, including changes to module loading and environment configuration, demonstrating back-end development skills. The user also added community documentation and fixed typos.
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 11 months
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Chris Benoit - Senior Director, IOS Development at RBC