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Chris Larkin

Southwest Ranches,FL

Summary

CTO and engineering leader with 25+ years of experience building scalable software platforms, game engines, AI-powered products, and mixed reality systems. Proven record of leading global engineering teams, shipping large-scale consumer applications, and architecting high-performance platforms. Experienced in AI agent workflows, Web3 systems, distributed cloud infrastructure, and enterprise SaaS architecture. Successful exit from multiple technology startups.

Overview

years of professional experience

Work History

CTO

CornerstoneX

07.2025 - Current

Developed a SaaS platform for AI-powered metahumans, enabling organizations to deploy interactive digital humans for customer engagement, training, and communication.
Inherited an inexperienced team with poor technical architecture and established new processes and technology architecture to achieve a stable 1.0 release in just 4 months.
Conduct weekly technical consultations with international enterprise customers to gather product feedback, resolve technical challenges, and support customer relationships, contributing to $500K+ in closed contracts.
Implemented processes and system architecture to achieve FedRAMP compliance, enabling the company to secure millions in public sector software contracts.
Developed and implemented team policies for AI-assisted development tooling, reducing headcount by 40% while increasing engineering output by 400% without sacrificing code quality or maintainability.
Managed a 20-person cross-functional team based in India, including engineers, product managers, designers, and artists, coordinating delivery across multiple disciplines.
Inventor on four patents that expanded the company’s intellectual property portfolio and contributed to significantly increased company valuation.
Architected and personally implemented a client-side browser-based avatar rendering system, dramatically reducing rendering and cloud costs while establishing a scalable production standard for metahuman avatars.

CTO and Co-Founder

WEBAVERSE, INC.

03.2023 - 08.2025

Led a seed funded startup to a successful AI consumer app which grew to 1.5 Million users in less than a year.
Instituted a policy and production methodology for rapid deployment. New features released every two weeks.
Rapidly grew the team to 40 exceptional people through a streamlined yet thorough hiring process.
Optimized operational expenses to improve margins, and provide exceptional value to our customers.
Coordinated and procured several co-located GPU cloud centers under budgeted expense targets.
Fostered a dedicated culture of excellence, built on leading by example, hands on in the code every day.
Instrumental in adding Web3 integrations.
Successful exit at an eight figure valuation.

Director of Engineering Research and Development

EMED LABS

11.2020 - 03.2023

Managed a team of 8 discipline experts to rapidly develop future technologies in the digital diagnostics medical space.
Inventor of record for over 200 technology and software patents in the rapidly evolving space of digital healthcare during the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath.
Close collaboration with product engineering leaders to bring bleeding edge capabilities to the product.
Instrumental in growing from a seed startup to over 500 employees and hundreds of millions in revenue.
Gained extensive experience in navigating the government regulatory space, particularly FDA authorizations.

Sr Manager Engineering Product Experience and Platform

MAGIC LEAP INC.

11.2018 - 04.2020

Grew and led a team of 15 prototype software engineers of diverse expertise and experience.
Our team was responsible for developing bespoke consumer and business solutions rapidly for hardware features the moment they were available. (First turn on)
Responsible for soliciting bids and selecting third party software development companies to help us build our solutions.
Instituted policy and production methodologies to define and accomplish all project milestones on time and on-budget.
Became a discipline expert in the capabilities of modern Mixed Reality technology.

Technical Director

OTHER OCEAN INC.

07.2009 - 11.2018

Led a team of 20 engineers to develop and ship over 24 titles from pre production through to mastering.
Hands on coding, helped build engines and tools to have titles ready for release before their console launch.
Console launch titles for (Nintendo DS, PS3, Xbox360, PS4, Xbox One, Apple iPad).
Required to learn new hardware, tools, and usually incomplete documentation to ship on time and on budget.
Hands on experience in modern commercial game engines (UE3, Unity, Lumberyard, UE4, Phyre, CryEngine)
Shipped Titles Include:
Medievil PS4
Minecraft Nintendo 3DS
Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Generations Windows PC (Steam)
Mega Man Legacy Collection PS4
Tales of Symphonia Windows PC (Steam)
Ultra Street Fighter IV PS4
Kingdoms of Camelot Android
Super Time Force Ultra Playstation Vita
#IDARB Xbox One
Costume Quest 2 Xbox 360, PS3, WiiU
Hexic Windows Phone
Iron Brigade PC (Steam, GFWL)
Stacking PC (Steam, GFWL)
Costume Quest PC (Steam, GFWL)
Mortal Kombat HD Kollection XBLA, PSN, PC (GFWL)
Duty Calls PC
Dark Void Zero PC (Steam, GFWL)
Super Monkey Ball 2 iOS (iPad)

Senior Core Engineer

LUCASARTS

04.2012 - 04.2013

Title: Star Wars: First Assault Senior Core Engineer Xbox360, PS3, PC (Steam)
Architected and build the Lucas Online experience console and Unreal Engine SDK
Implemented HTTPS protocol to spec for Unreal Engine 3.
Volunteered to host as the intern mentor for 20 gaming industry graduate students during the summer.

Lead Engineer

BACKBONE ENTERTAINMENT

02.2005 - 04.2008

Title: Gauntlet Lead Engineer Nintendo DS
Title: MechAssault: Phantom War Lead Engineer Nintendo DS
Title: GI Joe DS Senior Engineer Nintendo DS