Chris Nolet
Founder & CEO at Button Computer (YC W26)
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Nolet is a founder and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building consumer and spatial computing products at the intersection of hardware, systems, and user experience. After driving key software engineering efforts on Vision Pro at Apple—leading the first non-trivial visionOS app, spatial math tooling, and performance optimizations—he now leads Button Computer (YC W26), shipping a pocketable voice-first AI hardware button. His background includes highly optimized C++ graphics and VR work (light-field decoding at 90 FPS) and founding App.io, where he built low-latency iOS-to-HTML streaming and raised early funding. Based in San Francisco, he blends deep technical craftsmanship with product-level judgment and a knack for turning complex real‑time systems into delightful, low-latency user experiences.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Mechanical Engineering at RMIT University
Stackoverflow
8,913reputation
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css
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uibutton
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cocoa-touch
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websocket
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hierarchy
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objective-c
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Github Skills (58)
unity3d10
csharp-script10
cg10
unity-editor10
open-source10
websocket10
hierarchy10
voice-assistant10
voice10
extension-methods10
scriptableobject10
rollback10
game-development10
game-engine9
ios9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
chrisnolet/QuickOutline
Aug 2018 - Mar 2022
Unity asset for adding outlines to game objects
Contributions:2 releases, 3 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 7 months
game-objectscsharp-scriptunity-assetunity-editoroutlines
chrisnolet/GameJam
Jan 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:55 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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