Chris Gillum
Partner Software Architect at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChris Gillum is a Partner Software Architect at Microsoft with over a decade of experience designing serverless PaaS platforms and developer experiences for Azure. He led creation of Azure Durable Functions, Easy Auth, and contributed significantly to Dapr Workflow and the Durable Task Framework, demonstrating deep expertise in long-running workflows, orchestration, and distributed system reliability. Chris combines systems-level architecture with hands-on backend engineering—fixing race conditions, improving performance, and building middleware that powers elastic scale for Functions. Based in Seattle, he brings a rare blend of product-facing developer experience design and low-level runtime engineering, and even co-founded a successful iOS app with tens of thousands of users, showing an entrepreneurial streak alongside enterprise-scale craftsmanship.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of WashingtonRedmond High School
English, Japanese
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asynchronous
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azure-active-directory
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Github Skills (36)
stored-procedures10
json10
azure-storage10
linq-to-sql10
back-end-development10
work-flow10
azure-functions10
microservices-application10
workflow-engine10
language-agnostic10
system-design10
durable-functions10
netframework10
event-driven10
go10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/durabletask
Jun 2017 - Dec 2022
Durable Task Framework allows users to write long running persistent workflows in C# using the async/await capabilities.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 releases, 622 reviews, 195 commits in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Chris focused on implementing and improving core features of the Durable Task Framework, particularly within the Azure Storage provider. Their contributions included building dispatcher middleware for task orchestrations and activities, adding functionality such as counter operations, and integrating support for .NET standard 2.0. They were also involved in adding support for Azure Storage and improving the code related to exception handling and message processing.
async-awaitdurablecsharplongpersistent
Azure/azure-functions-durable-extension
Jun 2017 - Nov 2022
Durable Task Framework extension for Azure Functions
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 releases, 542 reviews, 266 commits in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Chris's commits primarily involve implementing and modifying code within the `azure-functions-durable-extension` repository, focusing on core functions for orchestrations, activities, and HTTP API handling. They introduced initial implementations, modified code for private preview, and made documentation improvements, particularly to the HTTP handler. Their contributions are centered on enhancing the functionality and capabilities of the Durable Task Framework extension for Azure Functions.
durableazure-functionsazure
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