Chris Burrows
Software Engineer at Apple
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Burrows is a seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience currently at Apple in Seattle, bringing deep systems and backend expertise honed across Microsoft, Google, and Twitter. He combines hands-on engineering with prior leadership and teaching roles, having managed engineering teams at Twitter and lectured at Northeastern University. At Apple he contributes to production-grade developer tooling and has made notable open-source contributions to the widely used apple/swift-protobuf library, improving builders, timestamp/duration handling, and JSON serialization. His background spans large-scale platform engineering, API/runtime design, and practical refactoring to make complex protocols easier to use. Chris holds advanced degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor's from The College of New Jersey, reflecting a long-term commitment to both theory and practice. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who quietly improves developer ergonomics and reliability across codebases.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at The College of New JerseyMaster's Degree, Master's Degree at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (11)
unix-timestamp10
swift10
timestamps10
timestamp10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
json-serialization10
data-structure9
algorithm9
data-structures9
algorithms9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apple/swift-protobuf
Jan 2017 - Aug 2020
Plugin and runtime library for using protobuf with Swift
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 16 commits, 13 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the core functionality of the SwiftProtobuf library. They focused on enhancing the `with()` builder, which is likely used for constructing protobuf messages. Their work included refactoring code, adding convenience initializers and getters for timestamps and durations. They also addressed specific issues related to timestamp and duration handling, ensuring correct specifications and JSON serialization.
protocol-buffersprotobufgrpcruntimeruntime-library
cburrows/swift-protobuf
Jan 2017 - Nov 2023
Plugin and runtime library for using protobuf with Swift
Contributions:95 pushes, 26 branches, 26 tags in 6 years 11 months
protocol-buffersprotobufgrpcruntimeruntime-library
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