Chris Crowe
Software Engineering Manager at Apple
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolChris Crowe is a Software Engineering Manager based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 15 years of experience leading engineering teams at Apple. He progressed from OTA lab engineer and automation developer to managing software teams that build internal testing, data processing, and tracking tools, combining deep domain expertise in test automation with practical product delivery. Comfortable across full-stack work, he’s contributed to macOS utilities like ShiftIt—improving UI, hotkey handling, and code quality—showing a hands-on approach to user-facing tooling. Known for mentoring engineers and running high-uptime lab operations earlier in his career, he blends operational rigor with a focus on shipping reliable, scalable internal systems.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science & Engineering, BS, Computer Science & Engineering at University of California, Davis
Github Skills (4)
macos10
user-interface10
objective-c10
cocoa10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
fikovnik/ShiftIt
Oct 2010 - Jan 2011
Managing windows size and position in OSX
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the user interface and functionality of the ShiftIt application, focusing on hotkey management and preferences. They added features to change hotkeys, handle key presses, and update the status menu shortcuts. Furthermore, the user refactored the code to utilize the ShortcutRecorder framework. The user also implemented incremental window sizing adjustments and minor bug fixes.
macospositionwindowsosx
mpgirro/docker-pihole-unbound
Feb 2019 - Dec 2022
Run Pi-Hole + Unbound on Docker
Contributions:31 releases, 9 reviews, 65 commits in 3 years 11 months
raspberry-pipiholedockerpi-holeunbound
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.