Chris Burgess
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Summerville, South Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Burgess is a Senior Software Engineer with over two decades of professional experience and more than a decade at Microsoft, currently contributing to Azure Compute’s Service Fabric efforts. He specializes in software infrastructure and engineering systems, driving scalable, resilient solutions and enabling productive engineering teams. Chris has progressed through roles from SDET to senior technical lead, blending deep testing discipline with systems-level architecture and build engineering expertise. Based in Summerville, SC, he pairs a values-driven approach with practical delivery, consistently aligning technical work to Microsoft’s mission of empowerment. An often-overlooked strength is his long history in test and build systems, which gives him a rare ability to bridge reliability, developer productivity, and large-scale service design.
5 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate in Arts and Science, Computer Science, Associate in Arts and Science, Computer Science at Edmonds Community College
Github Skills (25)
deploying10
cloud-computing10
microsoft10
stateless10
packaging10
microsoft-azure10
fabric10
azure10
microservices10
large-scale9
distributed-systems9
docker9
scale9
cloud-native9
orchestration9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ChrisBurgessMS/DevWorkspace
Mar 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
ChrisBurgessMS/azure-docs
Oct 2020 - May 2022
Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure
Contributions:4 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 7 months
azuremicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
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