Chris Chares
Software Engineering Manager at Apple
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Chares is a software engineering manager based in Denver with over a decade of experience designing and shipping mobile and systems software at scale, currently leading engineering at Apple. He has a strong hands-on background in Bluetooth Low Energy and home automation — inventing a BLE protocol patent and architecting Apple’s Matter accessory APIs (presented at WWDC 2021). Chris has rotated between individual contributor and leadership roles across startups and large companies (Robinhood, Hunter Douglas, multiple Apple teams), consistently moving projects from R&D through public release. An active contributor to open-source, he’s extended React Native BLE tooling with native iOS/Android and TypeScript improvements and added core networking tests to Swift Foundation. His blend of product-facing mobile expertise and low-level protocol work lets him bridge hardware, platform APIs, and developer experience in complex ecosystems.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
International Business, International Business at University of Denver
the binary language of moisture vaporators
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
unit-testing10
objective-c10
swift10
ios10
android-java10
foundation-sites10
btle10
android-app10
react-native10
foundation10
http9
componets6
android6
android-custom-view6
java6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
innoveit/react-native-ble-manager
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
React Native BLE communication module
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the React Native BLE communication module, adding functionality to discover services on iOS and Android. Their work involved modifications to both the native iOS (Objective-C) and Android (Java) codebases, as well as corresponding updates to the JavaScript interface. Furthermore, the user added type definitions for the library, improving code maintainability and developer experience. The commits show the user's focus on expanding the library's Bluetooth Low Energy capabilities.
reactreact-nativebluetoothbleandroid
swiftlang/swift-corelibs-foundation
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
The Foundation Project, providing core utilities, internationalization, and OS independence
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 11 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the core foundation library by implementing and testing new features. They added functionality to `NSHTTPCookie` including the implementation of `requestHeaderFieldsWithCookies()` with tests and created unit tests for `NSURLRequest` and `NSMutableURLRequest`. Further contributions include adding string constants to `NSProgress` and modifying how HTTP header fields are handled in `NSMutableURLRequest`.
tvostranslationinternationalizationfoundationindependence
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