Chris Bobbe
Software Engineer at Kandra Labs, Inc. (creators of Zulip)
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Bobbe is a software engineer based in San Francisco with nine years of experience building polished front-end and mobile experiences, currently contributing to Zulip at Kandra Labs. He brings deep UI/UX craftsmanship demonstrated through notable open-source work on Flutter—fixing layering, safe-area, and autocomplete behaviors in a widely used framework—and on Zulip’s native and Flutter mobile apps. Trained in English literature with a strong grounding in math and self-directed study at Recurse Center, he combines careful communication and code readability with practical engineering. Chris has a humanitarian interest in AI safety and familiarity with foundational research such as "Concrete Problems in AI Safety," reflecting a thoughtful, safety-minded approach to emerging tech. His background spans translation, editing, and teaching-adjacent roles, which underpins an ability to translate complex requirements into user-friendly interfaces.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Mathematics and Natural Science, High School Diploma, Mathematics and Natural Science at North Carolina School of Science and MathematicsBachelor of Arts (B.A.), English Language and Literature/Letters, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English Language and Literature/Letters at Haverford College
English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (27)
ios10
react-native10
mobile-development10
flutter-apps10
ui-components10
ui-design10
uid10
material-design10
front-end-development10
mobile10
flutter-game10
dart10
flutter10
apim9
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
zulip/zulip-mobile
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
Legacy Zulip mobile apps for Android and iOS
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:56 releases, 1137 reviews, 2867 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Chris's contributions focused on improving the mobile application for iOS, implementing new features and fixing bugs. The user made several changes related to user interface elements and navigation, for instance, fixing a bug with the login functionality, adding features related to displaying data, implementing a screen for editing, and updating a component for displaying user information. The user also contributed to various UI components and improvements.
androidiosmobile-applicationzulipreact-native
zulip/zulip-flutter
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
Zulip mobile apps for Android and iOS, using Flutter.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:1293 reviews, 21 commits, 509 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Chris focused on developing features and improving the user interface for the Zulip Flutter mobile apps. Their contributions include implementing image emoji handling, making the base font size a double, explicitly modeling realm- and zulip-extra emoji, ellipsize over-long topic names, and padding left and right insets. Furthermore, the user worked on simplifying safe-area handling and adding a send-message route. Additionally, the user prototyped a compose box and message action sheet, while also adding a sharing functionality.
androidflutteriosmobile-applicationzulip
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