Christian Allred
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChristian Allred is a Principal Software Engineer with over two decades of experience specializing in Windows kernel-mode development and file system infrastructure. Based in Redmond, he has driven core components of Windows including the Projected File System (ProjFS) that powers VFS for Git, the Filter Manager minifilter framework, FsRtl kernel APIs, oplocks, and the volume snapshot driver. He progressed through roles at Microsoft from implementing Transactional NTFS in Vista to owning critical runtime and snapshot infrastructure, blending deep systems design with long-term maintenance. His expertise in opportunistic locking and snapshotting reflects a rare combination of protocol-level thinking and practical, production-hardened engineering. Colleagues rely on him for stabilizing complex OS subsystems that other teams build on, and his background in heterogeneous network administration and early tooling hints at a pragmatic, cross-platform perspective.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Brigham Young University
English, Russian
Github Skills (83)
libgit210
managed-code10
python10
dns-resolver10
windows10
unbound10
validating10
automation10
resolver10
wake-on-lan10
dns10
visual-studio10
home-assistant10
dyndns10
virtual-file-system10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cgallred/Windows-driver-samples
Feb 2018 - Jul 2021
This repo contains driver samples prepared for use with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Windows Driver Kit (WDK). It contains both Universal Windows Driver and desktop-only driver samples.
Contributions:6 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 6 months
driversmicrosoft-visual-studiowindows-driverwindowswdk
microsoft/ProjFS-Managed-API
Feb 2019 - Mar 2022
A managed-code API for the Windows Projected File System
Contributions:9 releases, 20 reviews, 61 commits in 3 years 1 month
apivfswindowsmanaged-codefat
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