Chris Ross
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChris Ross is a Principal Software Engineer based in Bellevue, Washington with 13 years of experience building and hardening backend systems at Microsoft, currently focused on Azure Container Apps. He has deep .NET and ASP.NET Core expertise, contributing to foundational projects like in-memory caching, hosting/startup code, HTTP abstractions, Razor tooling, and the YARP reverse-proxy toolkit. His work spans core runtime improvements, CI/CD and sync tooling, and subtle but impactful fixes in authentication, configuration, and HTTP/2 behavior—demonstrating strength in both implementation and infrastructure. Chris routinely updates and modernizes codebases, migrating APIs and test suites while improving testability and platform compatibility. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic systems engineer who moves between low-level runtime concerns and developer-facing libraries with equal fluency. An often-overlooked detail: he’s contributed to several archived, high-impact aspnet repos that helped shape the current ASP.NET Core ecosystem.
13 years of coding experience
University of WashingtonBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at University of Washington Bothell
Github Skills (61)
asp-net-core-mvc10
owin10
razor10
url-routing10
unit-testing10
api-design10
identity10
testing10
net10
configuration-management10
http10
authentication10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
test-framework10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
aspnet/HttpAbstractions
Feb 2014 - Oct 2018
[Archived] HTTP abstractions such as HttpRequest, HttpResponse, and HttpContext, as well as common web utilities. Project moved to https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetCore
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:200 commits, 206 PRs, 266 pushes in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Chris's contributions primarily focused on implementing request and response properties, specifically concerning headers and content length, for the HTTP abstractions within the project. The user made additions to default request and response classes. They also implemented features related to cookie handling, including cookie settings and retrieval for requests and responses.
dotnetasp-net-mvcaspnethttpcontextaspnet-mvc
dotnet/yarp
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
A toolkit for developing high-performance HTTP reverse proxy applications.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 1144 reviews, 199 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to simplifying route configurations within the YARP project. Their work involved modifying tests, and rule parsing components. This indicates a focus on improving the core functionality and maintainability of the routing system. The user implemented and tested various cases for different configurations, including different host formats and methods.
http-performancedevelopingproxyreverse-proxyperformance
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