Christopher Robert
Founder & CEO at Dobility, Inc.
Henniker, New Hampshire, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Robert is a founder and CEO with a decade of experience building mission-driven tech companies that bridge research, development economics, and AI for public good. He launched and scaled Dobility and SurveyCTO to improve data quality and security for field research, then pivoted into ML and LLM applications through Orange Chair Labs and Higher Bar AI, a public benefit corporation focused on scaling research best practices. Trained as a development economist with an MPP and PhD-level work in public policy from Harvard, he combines rigorous policy analysis and applied microeconomics with hands-on product and engineering leadership. Comfortable moving between CTO-level technical roles and CEO-level strategy, he has a track record of turning methodological research needs into usable, secure tools for practitioners. Based in Henniker, NH, he favors pragmatic innovation that measurably improves data-driven decision making in development contexts.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MPP Political and Economic Development, MPP Political and Economic Development at Harvard Kennedy SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Public Policy, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Public Policy at Harvard UniversityHollywood Hills High SchoolBA Public Policy Analysis, BA Public Policy Analysis at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (83)
webextension10
points10
android-app10
safari9
firefox9
cli9
data-collection9
odk9
kotlin9
mhealth9
chrome9
browser-extension9
java9
android9
nodejs9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
higherbar-ai/survey-eval
Dec 2023 - Dec 2024
AI-powered survey evaluation tools
Contributions:67 PRs, 80 pushes in 1 year
higherbar-ai/py-surveydata
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
Codebase for the Python surveydata package
Contributions:10 releases, 79 commits, 60 PRs in 3 months
codebasepython
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