Chris graduated college with a Software Engineering degree after always tinkering with custom map editors in games like StarCraft and CounterStrike. He has been programming since he was old enough to understand how to piece together some Visual Basic.

In 2015 right around the launch of Unity 5 he got into indie game development after working in enterprise software development for several years. In 2021 he started a YouTube channel, LlamAcademy, to share his knowledge of game development with the masses, emphasizing accessibility with each video having its full project code available on GitHub for free.