Chris Seaton

Chris Seaton is a Researcher at Shopify, focusing on the Ruby programming language. He is also a Visitor at the University of Manchester. Prior to his current roles, Chris served as a Research Manager at the Oracle Labs Virtual Machine Research Group, where he led the TruffleRuby implementation of Ruby and contributed to other language and virtual machine projects. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from The University of Manchester, where he specialized in programming languages and irregular parallelism. He also completed his Master of Engineering (MEng) in Computer Science with First Class Honours at the University of Bristol. In addition to his academic and professional accomplishments, Chris is involved in the military as the Squadron Leader of the Cheshire Yeomanry squadron of the Queen's Own Yeomanry.