Chris Dietsch
Lead Software Engineer, World Of Warcraft at Blizzard Entertainment
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Dietsch is a seasoned engineering leader with 13+ years of hands-on software development and 15+ years of leadership experience, currently serving as Lead Software Engineer for World of Warcraft at Blizzard Entertainment. He specializes in solution architecture and coordinating large, multi-team projects that demand maintainable, high-quality code and reliable delivery. Previously a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, he led cross-platform Office features, drove engineering system overhauls (including source control and SDK alignment), and used telemetry-driven decisions to ship high-impact functionality. His background spans embedded and verification toolchains at Qualcomm, backend and tooling roles in Java/C++, and early platform work at Google, giving him fluency across systems, performance, and developer tooling. Known for curiosity—what he calls his “superpower”—he pairs technical depth with a focus on process, culture, and mentoring to amplify team impact. Based in Irvine, CA, he blends pragmatic engineering with long-term architectural thinking to solve complex, large-scale problems.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
UMass LowellBachelor's of Science Computer Science, Bachelor's of Science Computer Science at University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Github Skills (150)
microsoft-azure10
office36510
powerapps10
microsoft-graph-api10
microsoft10
azure-active-directory10
microsoft-graph10
linux9
snap9
rpm9
recurly9
pkg9
powershell9
bitbake9
testing9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cdietschrun/MonsterTrainInvulnerableMod
Dec 2020 - Feb 2025
Invulnerability mod for Monster Train on Steam
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 3 months
cdietschrun/VBA-Docs
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
This repo is no longer accepting new issues. To request changes, you can create a branch, make changes, then submit a PR. For more resources, see README.MD
Contributions:4 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 7 months
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