Chris Bolt
Software Manager at CSR
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Bolt is a seasoned software manager with 25 years of embedded systems experience, specializing in low-power SoC designs for communications, consumer audio and GNSS applications. He is highly proficient in C and experienced across Java, Python, .NET, C++/C# and assembler, and has led software architecture, bring-up, and full lifecycle delivery on complex GPS/GNSS receivers. Currently at CSR/Qualcomm as a software manager and staff engineer, he blends hands-on technical depth with team leadership on multi-constellation GNSS and wireless platforms. Beyond work, he applies his algorithmic skills to hobby projects—developing a publicly playable chess engine (EubosChess) available on GitHub and Lichess—illustrating a continued passion for performance, optimization and competitive problem solving. Educated in electronics and social theory, he brings both technical rigor and broad contextual thinking to product and system-level challenges.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Open Degree, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Open Degree at The Open UniversityMA Social and Political Theory, MA Social and Political Theory at University of East Anglia
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Github Skills (6)
uci10
chess10
lichess10
java10
uci-protocol10
chess-engine10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cjbolt/EubosChess
Feb 2015 - Jan 2023
A Java chess engine. Uses UCI protocol. Playable on lichess.
Contributions:47 releases, 1691 commits, 4 PRs in 8 years
chess-enginejavacompliantucilichess
cjbolt/UciLogAnalyser
Oct 2019 - Aug 2023
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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