Summary
Chris Cohoat is a founder and engineer with 14 years building full-stack systems, embedded software, and mechanical products, now leading morto.ai to modernize funeral-home software from Indianapolis. He combines a BSME background with deep hands-on experience in scalable web and mobile platforms, cloud architecture, real-time systems, and blockchain-powered marketplaces. Chris has repeatedly served as CTO or technical co-founder, re-architecting platforms to support millions of users, shipping mobile apps in weeks, and introducing event-driven pipelines and search at scale. He also pursues eclectic hardware and experiential projects—VR apps, robot sketching, a tech-enabled food truck, a robotic band, and hydroponic saffron—bringing physical product instincts to software design. His work spans startups, government consulting, and sustainability-focused ventures, showing a knack for marrying ambitious social missions with pragmatic engineering. That blend of mechanical intuition, production-grade software craftsmanship, and entrepreneurial creativity makes him effective at turning novel ideas into reliable, scalable products.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSME Mechanical Engineering, BSME Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University