I'm Head of Business Development, AI & DePIN at Aptos Labs — and I write the code.

Most people in my seat can read a roadmap. I ship against it. When a partner integration stalls on a technical unknown, I don't file a ticket and wait a sprint — I open the repo, build the prototype, and bring back something that runs. That shortens the distance between "interesting conversation" and "live in production" from quarters to weeks.

It's a strange combination on paper. In practice it's the whole advantage: I can sit in a partner's architecture review and a term sheet negotiation on the same afternoon, and be genuinely useful in both.

Ten years, four platform shifts — mobile → augmented reality → onchain → AI. I've been early to each one, at the companies defining them.

This card is generated from the GitHub API and committed to this repo, refreshed daily by a workflow. Every hosted README widget I tried was dead or dying — visitor-badge returns 410 Gone, github-profile-trophy returns 402, and github-readme-stats sits at 503 for days. A profile that renders broken is worse than one with no stats at all, so I stopped depending on other people's uptime. See how it works →

Everything below is publicly announced Aptos work. Most of my day-to-day lives in private org repos, so the public trail here is the tip of it.

Alongside that: agentic coding tooling, zero-knowledge identity, confidential compute, and Move smart contract infrastructure.

I also run UpLevel Technologies, a small studio building outcomes-focused software for clients.

  NOW ─┬─  APTOS LABS — Head of BD, AI & DePIN
       │   Perps · decentralized storage · AI agents · DePIN
       │   Rust · Move · TypeScript · Python
       │
 2022 ─┼─  APTOS LABS — Head of Business Development
       │   Joined a pre-mainnet L1 in September. Built out the
       │   partner ecosystem from the ground up.
       │
       ├─  METAPLEX STUDIOS — Partnerships
       │   Solana NFT infrastructure. Closed media, entertainment,
       │   sports and social deals.
       │
       ├─  META / FACEBOOK — BD & Strategic Partnerships, AR
       │   Spark AR and analytics. The AR platform shift, from inside
       │   the company driving it.
       │
 2015 ─┴─  MICROSOFT — Community & Accounts
           Power BI and developer community.

The through-line: I go where the platform shift is happening, early, and I learn to build on it before it's obvious. Mobile, then AR, then onchain, now AI — same instinct each time.

Languages  

Onchain  

AI & agents  

Spatial & mobile  

Fair warning: my public repos are not my current work. Everything I ship now lives in private org repos — the stat card above counts that work, but you can't browse it. What's public here is mostly old, and I'd rather show you the real thing than dress up a fork.

These are the ones I actually wrote, start to finish:

The rest of the account is forks and scratch repos from a career of taking things apart. I've left them public on purpose.

I'm not looking, but I'll always hear out something genuinely interesting — especially at the intersection of AI agents, DePIN, and onchain infrastructure, where the work is equal parts partnership strategy and shipping code.

The fastest way to reach me is chris@uplevel.llc.

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