Chris Wendt
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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RockstarChris Wendt is a seasoned language-services leader and engineer with 13 years of experience delivering machine translation, NLP, and internationalization solutions, most recently consulting and building open-source apps for Microsoft Translator. He led program management for Microsoft’s Machine Translation and later the Azure Language Services group, shipping customer-facing products like Bing Translator and Skype Translator that bridged research and production. Technically hands-on, Chris contributes to widely used open-source tooling and language servers—from code search and editor integrations to Haskell and Go developer tools—demonstrating breadth across backend, tooling, and QA/test automation. A Diplom-Informatiker from the University of Hamburg, he uniquely combines deep i18n expertise with practical .NET/Azure development and an eye for cost-effective translation workflows for enterprise customers.
13 years of coding experience
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (46)
path-manipulation10
apim10
visual-studio-code-extension10
javascript10
parser10
testing10
stack10
command-line-interface10
typescript10
bash10
websocket10
language-server-protocol10
stacker10
refactor10
ruby10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
sourcegraph/sourcegraph-public-snapshot
Apr 2018 - Nov 2022
Code AI platform with Code Search & Cody
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:236 reviews, 872 commits, 730 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Chris's contributions primarily focused on refactoring and fixing existing imports, with emphasis on enabling allowSyntheticDefaultImports, and removing unused imports. The user also addressed the performance of the codebase, fixing and cleaning before redefining cxp/cxpenv variables. Additionally, the user made changes to TypeScript related configurations.
sourcegraphcode-generationrepo-type-maindeveloper-toolslsif-enabled
sourcegraph/go-langserver
May 2018 - May 2019
Go language server to add Go support to editors and other tools that use the Language Server Protocol (LSP)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 32 PRs, 67 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Go language server. They improved error messages related to file handling within the build process, specifically for ignored files. Additionally, the user added support for WebSockets, enhancing the server's communication capabilities. The contributions included file modifications within core components such as the language server loader and external vendor dependencies.
1a89010d36gogo-languageserver-protocollsp
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