Chris Risner
Principal Group Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Kirkland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChris Risner is a Principal Group Engineering Manager with 13 years of experience at Microsoft and a total of over a decade in software engineering leadership, currently leading teams in Commercial Software Engineering focused on Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods. He combines hands-on technical depth—contributing to open-source Azure projects like azure-service-operator and enhancing Android SDKs—with strategic partnering and customer-facing solution architecture. Known for bridging product teams and customers, he helps design production-grade cloud-native solutions that run in Kubernetes and integrate Azure services. His background spans roles from technical evangelist to senior engineer and project manager, giving him a rare mix of developer empathy and operational rigor. Based in Kirkland, WA, he brings a pragmatic approach to shipping resilient systems and mentoring teams at scale. An under-the-radar strength is his practical experience updating tooling and dependency management in critical cloud operators to improve reliability and error handling.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Western Michigan UniversityBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Michigan State University
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Github Skills (21)
unit-testing10
kubernetes10
mobile-development10
controller10
android-sdk10
microsoft-azure10
java10
javas10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
kubebuilder10
azure10
operator10
url-encoding9
apidoc9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-service-operator
Aug 2019 - Sep 2019
Azure Service Operator allows you to create Azure resources using kubectl
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits in 12 days
Contributions summary:Chris contributed significantly to the `azure-service-operator` project, focusing on implementing and refining Azure service integrations within a Kubernetes environment. Their work involved creating and modifying Kubernetes custom resources (CRDs) for services like Storage, Redis Cache, and CosmosDB, and generating deepcopy functions. The user also addressed issues related to missing resource groups and implemented deployment logic and handling of finalizers. Furthermore, the user updated dependencies like kubebuilder and controller-runtime, and refined existing controller logic for improved error handling and resource management.
kubernetes-operatorsazure-resourceskubectloperatorkubernetes
Azure/azure-mobile-services
Mar 2013 - May 2013
Mobile Services is deprecated - Use Mobile Apps instead
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:7 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the Android SDK of the Azure Mobile Services project. Their work focused on adding parameters to various methods, including insert, update, and delete operations, allowing for more flexible usage. They implemented and tested these changes, including URL encoding of the parameters, which enhanced the SDK's capabilities. This work also involved adding unit tests to validate the updated functionality.
react-nativemobile-servicesandroidmobile-appsc-sharp
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