Chris Lindsay
Independent App Developer at Serpenti Sei
Ikoma, Japan
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Top SchoolChris Lindsay is an independent app developer and former staff engineer with 11 years of professional experience building user-focused software across mobile, desktop, and web platforms. Based in Ikoma, Japan, he is the creator and primary developer of Nihongo, a Japanese-English dictionary and learning app that leverages custom NLP to extract words from Japanese text and build contextual flashcard decks. His background spans client-side security and product UX—shipping features like Device Trust and iOS Encryption at Box—and low-level work on a Chromium-based secure browser at Subspace. He codes natively on Apple platforms (Objective-C and Swift), has deep experience in database query optimization, and maintains practical open-source contributions such as updating SimulatorStatusMagic to support newer iOS versions. A lifelong maker who started creating web games in high school, he also handles marketing, QA, and customer support for his indie apps, blending technical craft with product ownership. Outside work he’s a dad and applies his language-study experience directly to the tools he builds, giving his products a practical empathy for learners.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyARC Academy Osaka
Japanese
Stackoverflow
13,174reputation
2.5mreached
44answers
29questions
html
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hyperlink
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iframe
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cross-browser
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Github Skills (23)
objective-c10
ios10
iframe10
html10
hyperlink10
ipad9
simulator9
simulation9
hex9
caching9
simulations9
http9
iphone9
ios-simulator9
cross-browser9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
shinydevelopment/SimulatorStatusMagic
Oct 2020 - Aug 2022
Clean up your status bar for taking screenshots on the iOS simulator.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:14 reviews, 21 commits, 27 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to enhancing the iOS simulator status bar modification tool. Their work involved adding support for newer iOS versions (14, 15, and tentatively 16) by adapting the codebase to match changes in the underlying system structures used for controlling the status bar. They modified the code to reflect new structs and enums, and update the project readme file.
ios-simulatorscreenshotscleanstatussimulator
chrisvasselli/KINWebBrowser
May 2017 - Oct 2023
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
web-browseriosbrowserbrowser-module
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