Christopher Chapman
Senior Internationalization Engineer
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Chapman is a Senior Internationalization Engineer with 9+ years focused on fonts, text layout, OpenType, and Unicode, currently driving global language support at Apple. He has led distributed, multinational teams at Adobe and Monotype, blending engineering management with hands-on contributions to tools like AFDKO and the widely used fontbakery quality-assurance project. His background spans embedded firmware to high-level shaping engines and production tooling, giving him rare end-to-end expertise in font rasterization, shaping, and QA. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved core checks for CFF/TTF handling and hardened tooling to prevent crashes in font pipelines. Beyond code, he studies and performs on lute and flute family instruments, bringing a disciplined, cross-cultural perspective to language and typographic challenges.
9 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Electrical & Computer Engineering, B.S., Electrical & Computer Engineering at Louisiana State University
English, German, Hindi, Japanese
Github Skills (10)
font-face10
fonts10
fonttools10
python10
code-cleanup10
unit-testing9
code-optimization9
debugging9
command-line-tool9
testing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
adobe-type-tools/afdko
Oct 2017 - Jan 2023
Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 27 reviews, 406 commits in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily worked on the Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType (AFDKO) repository, focusing on the CheckOutlinesUFO.py tool. Their contributions involved fixing bugs, optimizing code, and improving the user experience. A significant portion of their work centered on cleaning up code by removing redundant code and improving code style, and updating to reflect directory changes. This included adding more error handling to prevent code from crashing.
opentype
fonttools/fontbakery
Nov 2018 - Aug 2020
🧁 A font quality assurance tool for everyone
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:50 commits, 25 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the `fontbakery` project, a font quality assurance tool, by implementing new checks and modifying existing ones. Their work focused on ensuring the correct behavior of font files, particularly related to CFF and TTF formats, and PostScript name consistency. The contributions include adding a new check for PostScript names, adding CFF2 support to glyph ink checks, and fixing existing checks related to monospace font metrics and versioning.
quality-assurancecommand-line-toolfont
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