Chris Mitchell
Staff Engineer at Dropbox
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Mitchell is a Staff Engineer based in Seattle with a decade of experience building reliable mobile and systems software across startups and enterprise teams. He blends deep Android and cross-platform expertise with firmware and backend experience from roles at Dropbox, Capital One, Cisco, and NetApp, often bridging client-facing product needs with technical delivery. Chris has led developer teams and technical architecture for consumer-facing apps in sports, travel, and entertainment, while also contributing to low-level drivers and CI tooling earlier in his career. Known for mentoring engineers and aligning business goals with career growth, he brings both hands-on implementation skills and long-term platform thinking. A Cleveland-area-trained electrical and computer engineer, he has a track record of translating complex integration challenges into production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Electrical & Computer Engineering, B.S., Electrical & Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (48)
kotlin10
dagger10
kotlin-flow10
android-applications10
kotlin-multiplatform-mobile10
kotlin-multiplatform10
fetch10
kotlin-native10
android-application10
gradle-plugin10
repository-pattern10
multiplatform9
ios9
java9
browser9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dropbox/AffectedModuleDetector
Oct 2020 - Jan 2022
A Gradle Plugin to determine which modules were affected by a set of files in a commit.
Contributions:1 release, 44 reviews, 43 commits in 1 year 3 months
gradle-plugin
doubleencore/de-tools-bugreport-android
Sep 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 63 commits, 5 PRs in 7 months
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