Chris Espinosa

Chris Espinosa is a senior employee of Apple, officially employee number 8.^[1] He joined the company at the age of fourteen in 1976 when it was still housed in Steve Jobs' parents' garage, writing software manuals and coding after school. Espinosa entered the University of California, Berkeley, where his freshman advisor was Andy Hertzfeld.

In 1981 Espinosa became a member of the Apple Macintosh team and has worked on many projects at Apple since, including Mac OS, A/UX, HyperCard, Taligent, Kaleida Labs, AppleScript, and Mac OS X. He is now a development engineering manager on the Xcode team.

Espinosa is a frequent speaker at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference and occasionally appears as a panelist at its Stump the Experts session.

References

1. ^ Derek Silvers (July 6, 2009). "Tom Williams: Hired by Apple at 14. His full story.". http://sivers.org/tom-williams. Retrieved October 4, 2011. 

External links

• Chris Espinosa stories on Folklore
• Smart Computing entry on Chris Espinosa
• Chris Espinosa personal blog

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