Chris Espinosa

As of 2018, Espinosa works on the iOS Sign in with Apple system.

Actor Eddie Hassell portrayed Espinosa in the 2013 film, Jobs.

Chris Espinosa (/ˌ ɛ s p ɪ ˈ n oʊ z ə / ) is a senior employee of Apple Inc., officially employee number 8. Having 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.

Espinosa met Steve Jobs at Paul Terrell's Byte Shop while the former was installing an Apple I, and later became friends with Steve Wozniak, despite having been warned against the two by his teachers at Homestead High School, where Jobs and Wozniak had also been students. In 1976 the 14-year-old Espinosa began working for Apple, making him one of the company's youngest employees. For a time during this early period of apple he and other employees slept underneath their desks. Officially he was Apple employee number eight. He began writing BASIC programs in Jobs' garage, and 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. In 1981 Jobs convinced Espinosa to drop out of school to work in Apple's publications department. Although Espinosa did not participate in the company's initial public offering, Wozniak had offered up to 2,000 pre-IPO shares at $5 a share to a group of 40 employees, including Espinosa, who he thought were undervalued, which became known as the Woz Plan. Espinosa has worked in a variety of different positions during his time at Apple, including as an AppleScript engineer and in developer support.