Chris Grove
Chief Technology Officer
Chris Grove is KeyLimeTie's CTO and principal iOS developer. At KeyLimeTie, Chris architects and develops mobile solutions for enterprise clients including iPhone/iPad apps, developer APIs, and server-side solutions for mobile integration. As CTO, Chris keeps abreast of developing mobile trends across platforms and leads KeyLimeTie's mobile development team consisting of iOS, Android and Windows Mobile developers. For more than 15 years Chris has designed and implemented custom solutions in diverse industries such as insurance, finance, publishing, energy, time tracking, and construction.
KeyLimeTie provides me the perfect blend; an opportunity to draw on my 15-year history in diverse industries (including insurance, finance, publishing, energy and construction) and the imperative to build with technologies that are now emerging into the mainstream, such as mobile.
As far as I’m concerned, you can’t beat getting up knowing that you’re going to be working on cutting edge technology all day long. So many software firms use technology that’s been around for years—not at KeyLimeTie. We’ve found a unique way to help our customers by picking the appropriate new technologies, and that’s what I like doing.
My favorite projects are the ones where we architect a solution from the ground up; these projects include our iLime product and a customer service application we built for use in insurance agency branch locations. With projects like these, we determine the best processes and technologies, then see it all come together into a successful end product.
With iLime, we buit a cloud-based web web service for an undefined audience, and we had complete creative freedom on how to implement it. We used new processes and new technologies, which made for a very exciting project.
My job is complete when our clients get excited about their technology as a result of working with them. When you get excited about what your technology can do for you, it puts you in a position where you are going to think about new ways to do things. It helps you get “outside the box.” At that point, it’s no longer us telling them what might be useful, but them telling us what new ways we might be able to help them use that technology.
In my spare time, I enjoy flying planes, good food, playing guitar, reading, traveling, and scuba diving.