Chris Fernald
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Fernald is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building low-level OS technologies and platform integrations at Microsoft, currently contributing to kernel, boot loader, and Dynamic Root of Trust Measurement work on the Core OS Base Platform Team. He brings a strong foundation in scalable distributed systems from internships at Yahoo, where he helped design a Kafka-backed asynchronous data processing platform intended for millions of users. A Computer Engineering graduate from UT Austin with a 3.9 GPA, Chris blends deep systems knowledge with practical production experience across security-sensitive, performance-critical components. He’s comfortable operating at the intersection of firmware, OS, and distributed services—an engineer who moves seamlessly between silicon-near code and large-scale system design.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, 3.9 / 4.0, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, 3.9 / 4.0 at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (34)
uefi10
continuous-integration10
ipmi10
python10
qemu10
firmware10
edk210
user-config9
programming-language9
windbg9
mdm9
chroot9
crypto8
api8
minimum8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cfernald/mu_feature_ipmi
Mar 2022 - Mar 2024
Project Mu - Feature Repo- Firmware support for IPMI
Contributions:25 releases, 265 pushes, 46 branches in 2 years
ipmimu-projectfirmwaremu-feature
microsoft/mu_feature_debugger
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Project Mu based UEFI SW/FW debugger
Contributions:3 releases, 7 reviews, 38 PRs in 11 months
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