Summary
Chris Ripple is a Director of Engineering for Android with over a decade of hands-on mobile and leadership experience, known for transforming legacy Xamarin/C# teams into Kotlin-first organizations and shipping a complete modular rewrite of a flagship app. He blends technical depth—modern Android architecture, CI/CD, analytics governance—with people leadership, mentoring engineers into leads and staff roles while redesigning hiring and release KPI processes. At iFIT he drove cross-functional roadmaps, launched iFIT 2.0, and scaled capacity via domestic and international contractor relationships. Earlier roles leading remote teams and developer toolkits give him a pragmatic view of distributed delivery and reusable component design. Based in Pennsylvania, he pairs data-driven decision making with a focus on developer quality of life, often automating toil with custom tooling like Slackbots and tailored CI improvements.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Indiana University of Pennsylvania