Christian Gunderman
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolChristian Gunderman is a Staff-level software engineer with 12 years of cross-cutting experience building developer tools, search, and LLM-driven experiences across Microsoft, GitHub, and now Google. He’s driven core features for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio and VS Code, led prototypes exposing developer tools to agentic workflows, and architected indexing and retrieval systems for semantic code search. Deeply technical and polyglot, he’s implemented everything from editor UI and extensibility APIs to storage engines and model benchmarking in languages like C#, Rust, TypeScript, C++, and Go. Known as an adaptable generalist, he repeatedly ships high-impact, performance-sensitive systems—such as Visual Studio’s full-text indexing server and Language Server Protocol ports to VS Mac—that bridge IDEs, services, and experiments. He also brings hands-on A/B experimentation and telemetry expertise to improve code-completion quality and agent performance across Microsoft and GitHub products. Based in Bellevue, WA, he combines large-product engineering breadth with rare depth in programming languages, search, and developer-facing AI tooling.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University
Stackoverflow
61reputation
2kreached
3answers
0questions
Github Skills (173)
nuget10
visual-studio-mac10
windows10
asp-net-core10
language-server-protocol10
exe10
asp-net10
mef10
csproj10
code-analysis10
visual-studio10
fsharp10
razor10
roslyn10
linux10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
gundermanc/Gleam
Nov 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:46 commits, 32 PRs, 78 pushes in 1 year 6 months
gundermanc/gunderscript-2
Jan 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:34 PRs, 278 pushes, 46 branches in 5 years 3 months
in-progressjavascriptcompilerprogramming-languageinterpreter
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.