Chris Willmore
Software Engineer at Apple
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Willmore is a software engineer with 18 years of experience in systems and language-core development, based in San Francisco. Since 2008 he has contributed to foundational projects at Apple, including long-running work on the Swift programming language and earlier subsystems like iOS text/keyboard and a CI/testing framework for OS X updates. His open-source contributions to Swift’s corelibs-foundation demonstrate deep familiarity with language evolution, API migration and bridging semantics—skills that bridge compiler/runtime concerns and practical API maintenance. Chris holds an MS in Computer Science from RPI and a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from Purdue, and early internships show a pattern of low-level emulator, security and medical-device test tooling work that complements his higher-level language engineering.
18 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Purdue UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (7)
swift10
foundation-sites10
foundation10
api-design9
objcective-c8
objective-c8
interop8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
swiftlang/swift-corelibs-foundation
Jan 2015 - May 2016
The Foundation Project, providing core utilities, internationalization, and OS independence
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Swift Foundation library. Their work involved modifying existing code to align with new Swift language features like "as!" for forced downcasting, and eliminating implicit bridging conversions. They also updated API usage to reflect changes from Swift 3 naming conventions and addressed IUO (Implicitly Unwrapped Optionals) issues.
tvostranslationinternationalizationfoundationindependence
cwillmor/cwillmor.github.io
Dec 2015 - Nov 2022
Contributions:19 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
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