Chris Cox

I build things people depend on.

20+ years shipping software. Built foundational iOS frameworks at Google used by every app in the ecosystem. Founded a company that got acquired. Now building again.

SOFTWARE ENGINEER · SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA

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12.5 yr
at Google
1
exit (acquired)
M+
users shipped to
20+
years shipping

SELECTED WORK

Highlights from 20+ years

YouTube Live Creation

Google · iOS Tech Lead · 2021–2025

Led iOS for immersive mobile live streaming. Launched co-streaming (Latenite) and vertical live creation. Owned WebRTC performance, real-time encoding, adaptive bitrate, and backend Innertube APIs for iOS and Android.

Swift WebRTC AVFoundation Innertube

GoogleKit & Material Components for iOS

Google · Founding Engineer · 2013–2017

Open Source

One of the first engineers on GoogleKit — Google's internal iOS UI framework. Architected, prototyped, and productionized components used by nearly every Google iOS app. Led the effort to open-source it as Material Components for iOS on GitHub.

Objective-C Swift UIKit Open Source

Google Health — Bilicam

Google · Engineering Tech Lead · 2018–2019

FDA

FDA-regulated medical device that screens newborns for jaundice using a smartphone camera and trained ML models. Led engineering across a suite of clinical, parent-facing, and data collection apps on iOS and Android.

Swift CoreML Camera FDA QC

Google Workspace & Gmail

Google · iOS Tech Lead · 2019–2021

TL for iOS across Chat Spaces and Gmail/Hub. Made Spaces discoverable on iOS, built cross-platform notification settings, implemented EECC compliance. Led mobile architecture unifying Gmail, Chat, and Meet.

Swift Cross-Platform SRL DI

Remixer & Material Design Prototyping

Google · Founder & TLM · 2016–2018

Founded

Founded Remixer — cross-platform libraries for live design value refinement. Authored vision doc and PRD, prototyped, then led a staffed team. Also founded the Material Design V2 Prototyping Team (~6 engineers).

iOS Android Web material.io

BUILDING NOW

Sportpoolz

Full-stack sports prediction platform + native iOS app. Real-time leaderboards, spread-based scoring, group management.

Elixir Phoenix Ash SwiftUI Fly.io

sportpoolz.com →

ash_multi_account

OSS

Multi-account linking for Ash Framework. Google-style account switcher — first of its kind in the Elixir ecosystem.

Elixir Ash Spark DSL

GitHub →

CAREER

The path

Independent

2025 — now

Building Sportpoolz and contributing to the Ash/Elixir ecosystem.

Google

2013 — 2025 12.5 years

Senior SWE / Tech Lead. iOS across YouTube, Workspace, Gmail, Health, Nest, Area 120, Material Design. Built GoogleKit and Material Components — foundational frameworks for Google's entire iOS ecosystem.

Squarespace

2009 — 2013

Senior Staff SWE. Built flagship iOS apps (Note, Manager, Portfolio). Lead engineer for V5 platform — backend, templating, APIs, web client. Joined via acquisition.

Wirepoint Media

2007 — 2010 Acquired

Founder / CEO. 3D visualization and mobile development. 15+ customer projects. Acquired by Squarespace.

Inforez

2000 — 2007

VP of Technology. CAD-driven virtual home construction (Framebuilder™). 3D rendering pipelines. Led 20+ engineers.

TECHNICAL

What I work with

iOS / Mobile

Swift SwiftUI UIKit Obj-C async/await WebRTC AVFoundation CoreML

Backend

Elixir Phoenix Ash PostgreSQL Java C++ Distributed Systems

Web

JavaScript TypeScript React HTML/CSS REST APIs

Infra & Tools

Docker Fly.io Firebase CI/CD Git Xcode

CONTACT

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Open to opportunities, collaborations, or interesting conversations about building software.

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