
Mac app · 2026
Headroom
A native macOS app that shows what is using your disk and memory, explains it in plain language, and gets space back without deleting anything directly.
- Role
- Author
- Built with
- Swift, SwiftUI, launchd, Ollama
Founding software engineer at Baro. I also make Mac apps, and work on kernels and open source in my own time.
Before Baro I worked on a CMS at Profound and did two internships at Uber. Before software, I served in the French military and worked as a butcher.

15 things I've built or helped build: Mac apps, open source, personal projects and research. They’re also all on one page.
A native macOS app that shows what is using your disk and memory, explains it in plain language, and gets space back without deleting anything directly.
A Mac app that keeps my apps up to date automatically and makes Homebrew’s library easy to search, checking each update worked before anything old is removed.
A minimal experimental kernel for ARM, booted on QEMU’s Versatile board with a Cortex-A8 override.
A decorator-based Python library for building Matrix protocol bots without the boilerplate.
A Rust CLI that turns audio or video into karaoke-style clips with word-timed burned-in subtitles.
A fast, extensible code editor in C++/Qt6, built as a teaching vehicle for a student engineering team.
A collaborative note-taking app whose notes are scriptable through user-defined macros.
A native desktop timer that stays out of the way and makes noise when time is up.
A daily tracker for asteroids and comets whose orbits bring them close to Earth, pulled live from NASA.
A community library of programming resources, searchable by category and edited through a README.
A focus timer for single-task work blocks, running here in the page.
Generate a QR code in the browser, with nothing hidden in it and nothing sent anywhere.
A Go and PostgreSQL starter with the CRUD, auth, and frontend wiring already in place.
Founding Software Engineer
Full-Stack Software Engineer
Software / Data Engineering Intern — AdTech
UberSTAR Software Engineering Intern — DOTCOM
Teaching Assistant / Tutor
Proposal Writing & Evaluation Intern
Operations IT Support Technician
French Military · Butcher
M.S. Computer Science
California State University, Long Beach
Jan 2026 — Jun 2026, on hiatus
B.S. Computer Science — Magna Cum Laude, with departmental honors
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Jan 2023 — May 2025
Certificate of Achievement with Honors, Computer Science
El Camino College
Jul 2021 — Jun 2023
Email is the quickest way to reach me: chrisdedman@proton.me. The other places I’m on are in the footer.