Arun Chander
Engineering Leader at Meta
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArun Chander is an engineering leader with 18+ years of experience building developer platforms, cloud services, and AI-driven systems, currently leading AI innovation for code generation (Copilot for C#) in Visual Studio and VS Code. He has driven both 0->1 products and globally scaled platforms across Microsoft, Oracle, and Meta, focusing on developer productivity, identity control planes, and AI storage/retrieval for large-scale training and inference. A hands-on contributor to high-profile open-source .NET projects like Roslyn and the VS project system, he brings deep compiler and language-server experience that informs platform-level design decisions. Arun pairs strategic leadership with detailed backend and full-stack engineering—having implemented project-system enhancements, language-server integrations, and robustness fixes in compiler infrastructure. Based in Redmond, he combines academic grounding (M.S. in Computer Science) with enterprise operational rigor, often surfacing non-obvious tradeoffs between tooling ergonomics and runtime performance. Known for translating deep technical contributions into product-level impact, he thrives at the intersection of AI, developer tooling, and scalable cloud systems.
6 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at Iowa State UniversityBachelor of Technology, Electronics & Communication, Bachelor of Technology, Electronics & Communication at Amrita University
English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu
Github Skills (22)
roslyn10
net10
c-compiler10
dotnet10
language-server-protocol10
vba10
vscode-extension10
asp-net10
csproj10
language-server10
code-analysis10
visual-studio10
dotnet-core10
compiler10
csharp10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/vscode-csharp
May 2023 - Mar 2025
Official C# support for Visual Studio Code
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:176 reviews, 68 PRs, 48 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Arun primarily contributed to the C# support for Visual Studio Code, focusing on the Roslyn language server and its integration with C# Dev Kit. They made several changes to the language server, including renaming extensions, adjusting logging, and integrating C# Dev Kit features. Additionally, the user worked on improvements to the Razor integration, including enhancements to the dynamic file handling and formatting capabilities.
dotnetvisual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensionomnisharp
dotnet/project-system
May 2020 - Mar 2022
The .NET Project System for Visual Studio
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 22 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Arun primarily focused on enhancing the .NET project system, adding support for Codespaces in `ProjectTypeRegistration.cs` and bringing F# and VB into the fold. Their work involved modifying project capabilities by renaming and adding new capabilities, and implementing project configuration dimension providers. Furthermore, the user updated existing code to support solution reload reduction in branch switch scenarios.
dotnetvisual-studio-extensionfsprojcsprojfsharp
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