Chris Hinsley
Lead Architect at ChrysaLisp
Greater Blackburn with Darwen Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Hinsley is a veteran Lead Architect with over three decades of systems and OS design experience, currently driving the ChrysaLisp parallel operating system project as full‑stack developer and lead architect. He has a rare blend of hands‑on low‑level engineering—from device drivers and embedded software to full operating systems—and product leadership, having served as CTO/Director of Technology across multiple companies. His background includes inventing the Taos OS and pioneering audio-visual GUI toolkits and ARM translation tech for mobile platforms, reflecting deep expertise in multimedia and portability. Chris has delivered commercial products and research-driven solutions for large electronics firms while also contributing to game design, distributed systems and supercomputing projects. Notably, his open-source ChrysaLisp work combines an OS, GUI, assembler, and Lisp interpreter, showcasing a long-term commitment to building complete computing stacks rather than isolated components. Based in the UK, he pairs historic innovation with current hands-on development of novel OS and UI technologies.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
St Beads Grammer School UK
Stackoverflow
71reputation
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2questions
Github Skills (15)
filesystem10
windows-gui10
c-programming10
assemble9
assembler9
operating-system9
assembly9
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
system-calls6
mmap6
macos6
x86-646
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vygr/ChrysaLisp
Feb 2015 - Jan 2023
Parallel OS, with GUI, Terminal, OO Assembler, Class libraries, C-Script compiler, Lisp interpreter and more...
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:58 releases, 8 reviews, 6497 commits in 8 years
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the ChrysaLisp operating system project, making several changes to various components. The commits demonstrate the user's work in enhancing the file system, adding core functionalities such as textfield support, working with the image processing system, and also contributing to the development of the UI and GUI layer. The focus was on the development and refinement of the user interface and the back end functionality.
compilerprogramming-languageguilispraspberry-pi-3
vygr/Python-PCB
Dec 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:39 commits, 10 pushes, 11 comments in 6 months
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