Christopher Haupt — Principal Consultant

Christopher Haupt is a software architect, developer, and educator with over 25 years experience. Today, he is focused on rendering that experience into forms that can serve the wider community via the consultancy Mobirobo LLC and as the CTO of Webvanta Inc. and co-author of the LearningRails Podcast.

Christopher was previously the Director of Engineering of Consumer and Hosted Application and Online Services at Adobe Systems. Much of his focus while at Adobe was on architecture and building a wide variety of online-enabled technologies and back-end infrastructure for the popular Photoshop line of products. He was also the Senior Engineering Manager on Adobe Photoshop Extended, a founding Engineering Manager for Photoshop Elements, and lead on a number of early Consumer titles such as PhotoDeluxe.

In the years before Christopher’s time at Adobe, he was a co-founder or lead engineer at a number of start-ups focused on educational and game software. Most notable was CyberPuppy Software, a Maxis affiliated studio, which produced the CODIE award winning Kid’s Studio line, which Christopher co-created with his partners. Christopher also developed a number of early on-line technologies during the 1990’s that were precursors to today’s MMOs.

Earlier in Christopher’s professional life, he was an Instructor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he focused on computer graphics and distributed systems. He was instrumental in developing some of the earliest Campus-Wide Information Systems, ahead of the introduction of the World Wide Web. He also spent a few years working for E.I. duPont as a systems and real-time process control programmer.

Christopher is active in his community, currently teaching volunteer art classes for local elementary school students. He is also an avid Photographer and Potter.

Christopher holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Computer Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology.