Chris Espinosa

Christopher Espinosa (; born September 18, 1961) is an American software engineer. He is a senior employee of Apple Inc., officially employee number 8 ; he joined the company at the age of fourteen in 1976 when it was still housed in Steve Jobs' parents' garage, writing software manuals and coding after school. , he is the company's current and all-time longest-serving employee.

Career Espinosa met Steve Jobs at Paul Terrell's Byte Shop while Jobs was installing an Apple I, and later befriended Steve Wozniak. Espinosa had been warned against the two by his teachers at Homestead High School, where they had also been students.

In 1976, the 14-year-old Espinosa became employee number eight at Apple, as one of the youngest employees. He began writing BASIC programs in Jobs's garage. He and other early employees slept underneath their desks. He has worked his entire life at Apple, with the exception of a brief hiatus during which he studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where his freshman advisor was graduate student Andy Hertzfeld, who along with Barney Stone had started a local Apple user group.

Espinosa has worked in a variety of positions and departments at Apple. AppleScript, Xcode, macOS, and the iOS Family Sharing system. He is a frequent speaker at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference and occasionally appears as a panelist at its Stump the Experts session.

In media Actor Eddie Hassell portrayed Espinosa in the 2013 film Jobs.