Christopher Van is a multidisciplinary software engineer and entrepreneur with 8+ years of professional experience and lifelong coding roots that started on an Apple ][ at age five. He blends hands-on expertise across mobile, web, embedded systems and network engineering with business leadership—founding and running multiple companies that scaled to dozens of corporate networks and a popular long-running online game. As a Research Fellow at UMass Amherst and owner of a Bridgewater IT firm, he pairs practical R&D in cybersecurity and small systems with commercial iOS and mobile health product development. Self-taught from transistors through assembly to high-level languages, he’s comfortable shipping across 18 languages and leading teams on iOS platforms. Known for pragmatic problem solving and a habit of finding solutions when others give up, he also pursues precision hobbies like watchmaking and microcontroller prototyping that inform his engineering craft.
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Christopher Van - Research Fellow at Central Square Computer Repair