Chris Coleman
Co-founder & CTO at Memfault
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Coleman is a co-founder and CTO with 11 years of deep embedded systems experience, currently building Memfault, the first observability and OTA platform tailored for connected hardware. He combines hands-on firmware expertise—from UART and watchdog integrations to low-level boot and bus drivers—with product-level thinking that reduces RMAs, shortens time-to-market, and improves field reliability. Prior roles at Fitbit, Pebble, and Oracle sharpened his ability to scale firmware across consumer and enterprise devices while maintaining high RAS and performance. Chris graduated with honors in Electrical Engineering from Brown and participated in YC W19, blending rigorous technical foundations with startup velocity. An active contributor to embedded open-source projects, he focuses on firmware features that directly improve device maintainability in the wild. He’s particularly passionate about closing the loop between in-field observability and rapid OTA remediation to prevent customer-facing failures.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
YC W19, YC W19 at Y CombinatorSc.B. with Honors, Electrical Engineering with a focus in Multimedia Signal Processing, 4.0/4.0, Sc.B. with Honors, Electrical Engineering with a focus in Multimedia Signal Processing, 4.0/4.0 at Brown University
Github Skills (8)
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firmware10
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cortex-m10
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boot8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
memfault/interrupt
Jun 2019 - Jul 2022
A community for embedded software makers.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:44 reviews, 59 commits, 68 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributes to an embedded software project focusing on firmware development. Their work includes implementing new features and fixing existing issues. The user's commits involve code changes to interact with low-level hardware, including interacting with peripherals like the UART. The contributions also add software watchdogs and integrate hardware components.
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chrisc11/zephyr
Jul 2020 - Aug 2022
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Contributions:46 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years
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