Summary
Chris Woodard is an experienced iOS developer with 13+ years building and modernizing native iPhone and iPad apps, currently driving feature development and SwiftUI refactors at Chewy. He combines deep Objective-C roots with modern Swift practices—expertise that includes Core Location, SQLite, Swift Codable, Stripe mobile payments, and frequent Objective-C-to-Swift migrations. Comfortable across the full stack, he has a long history in PHP and API design, runs meetups and training (Pluralsight course author), and emphasizes testable, maintainable code and early design pairing to avoid costly rework. His background in chemistry and experimental psychology informs a data-minded, user-focused approach to product decisions and analytics work with R and Python.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bartow Senior High
MA, Experimental Psychology, MA, Experimental Psychology at University of South Florida