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Christine Templin

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Engineering at Nayak.ai (Techstars '23)
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Christine is the CTO of Nayak.ai, with a background as an engineering and technology leader at major companies like Apple, Twitter, and TextNow. She specializes in scaling real-time systems and engineering teams for early-growth stage companies. Christine studied Chemical Engineering at Drexel University.

Outside of her core technology roles, Christine has a demonstrated passion for using technology to foster community and create change. She co-founded a non-partisan mobile platform focused on civic engagement and has written about the challenges and solutions for women in engineering.

Unique fact: Christine co-founded PurplePatrio, a mobile platform designed to empower people to shape government through civic engagement.

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Experience
17 Years
Current Role
Engineering
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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Scaling Tech Teams
Her experience at Apple, TextNow, and Nayak.ai focuses on building and scaling engineering, infrastructure, and operations teams from the ground up.
Early-Stage Startups
As the CTO at Nayak.ai, a Techstars '23 company, she is focused on solving critical technology challenges in early growth stages.
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Career

Work history

3-2025
Engineering
Nayak.ai (Techstars '23)
3-2021 - 8-2024
Director, Apple Services Engineering- Software Development Platforms
Apple
2-2019 - 8-2020
VP of Engineering
TextNow
7-2018 - 2-2019
Infrastructure & Backend Engineering
TextNow
9-2014 - 10-2019
Co-founder
PurplePatriot
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Education
1989 - 1993
Business/Managerial Economics
Temple University
1985 - 1989
Chemical Engineering
Drexel University
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