Chris Mullins
Director Of Product, Copilot Studio at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChris Mullins is a product and engineering leader based in Redmond with a decade of experience building platforms, APIs, and highly scalable secure systems across cloud, telephony, messaging, and conversational computing. Currently Director of Product for Copilot Studio after shaping the Copilot SDK and emerging technologies at Microsoft, he blends strategic product leadership with deep hands-on engineering. His open-source contributions to the Microsoft Bot Framework (C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, and .NET) underline a practical expertise in agents, bots, and assistant architectures—work that spans adapters, state management, and attachment/authentication handling. Previously a VP of Engineering and long-tenured Microsoft and AWS technologist, he’s comfortable moving between low-level state and intent systems and high-level product design. Colleagues rely on him to translate cutting-edge research into production-ready developer platforms and APIs that scale.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at University of Phoenix
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Github Skills (32)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/botbuilder-dotnet
Sep 2017 - Oct 2020
Welcome to the Bot Framework SDK for .NET repository, which is the home for the libraries and packages that enable developers to build sophisticated bot applications using .NET.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 38 reviews, 1334 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Chris implemented core functionalities for state management and related classes within the .NET Bot Builder SDK, as evidenced by adding `BotStateManager` and related classes. Their contributions included creating classes for `ConversationState` and `UserState`, and defining settings for the `BotStateManager`. Further, the user added tests to verify the functionality of the `BotStateManager`. The user also implemented the integration of intent recognition functionality.
dotnetsdk-frameworkdotnet-core2botsdk
microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples
Aug 2018 - Apr 2021
Welcome to the Bot Framework samples repository. Here you will find task-focused samples in C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Python to help you get started with the Bot Framework SDK!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 82 commits, 290 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Chris's commits indicate work on the Bot Framework samples repository, touching upon C# and .NET Core for Adaptive Cards, and attachment handling, and core bot functionality. They have been involved in code reviews and merging branches, specifically related to attachments and authentication. Their contributions include changes across multiple files in different projects, showcasing a full stack approach.
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