Chris Hamons
Senior Staff Engineer at Microsoft
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolChris Hamons is a Senior Staff Engineer in Austin with 16 years of experience building and scaling distributed systems, currently on OneSignal’s Core Delivery Team helping power 10 billion daily notifications using Kafka, Redis, Rails and industrial-strength asynchronous Rust. He blends deep platform and developer-tooling expertise from a long Microsoft/Xamarin career—contributing to Xamarin macOS/iOS, Mono, Azure SDKs and AutoRest—to ship SDKs, build automation, and cross-language tooling. His open-source work ranges from DPI-aware windowing and graphics fixes in the Rust ggez game library to build and CI improvements in Azure and Mono, demonstrating comfort from high-throughput backend systems down to runtime and platform internals. A pragmatic engineering leader and hands-on problem solver, he has also worked on native .NET packaging (Embeddinator-4000), showing fluency across language and runtime boundaries.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University
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Github Skills (63)
xamarin-mac10
nuget10
objective-c10
apim10
build-script10
game-engine10
powershell-710
scripting10
azure-sdk10
net10
xamarin10
dotnet10
swagger10
automation10
winit10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
xamarin/mac-samples
Jan 2014 - Mar 2020
Sample programs showing how to use Xamarin.Mac on OSX.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 30 PRs, 20 pushes in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on updating and fixing samples related to Xamarin.Mac, a framework for building macOS applications using C#. Their contributions involved modifying existing code to use new APIs, fixing bugs, and updating dependencies within several sample projects. The changes touched upon various aspects of macOS development, including networking, UI, and PDF generation.
osxxamarin-macmacxamarinprograms
mono/Embeddinator-4000
Apr 2017 - Jul 2019
Tools to turn .NET libraries into native libraries that can be consumed on Android, iOS, Mac, Linux and other platforms.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:73 commits, 108 PRs, 52 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Chris focused on implementing and improving the Embeddinator-4000 project, which is designed to generate native libraries from .NET libraries. Their primary contributions involve adding features like indexed and keyed subscripting, implementing operator overloads, and addressing issues related to duplicate identifiers. The user also worked on the project's build process and added support for native exception handling. These changes focused on enhancing the functionality of the library generation process.
native-librariesdotnetconsumedwindowsios-android
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