Christian Harper-cyr is a Senior Firmware Engineer with 10 years of experience building low-level systems, device drivers, and resource-constrained embedded software across Microsoft and Axon. He combines systems programming, high-performance tracing, and full-stack prototyping—ranging from MCU FreeRTOS firmware and HoloLens BSP drivers to web API refactors and CI/CD automation for a widely used Microsoft Teams library. Known for pairing hardware-sensitive development with robust testing and tooling, he frequently collaborates with electrical engineers and integrates logic-analyzer driven validation into delivery. Based in Seattle with an MSc in Computer Engineering, he’s driven by a curiosity to understand systems deeply—evidenced by personal OS development and contributions that streamlined build-and-release pipelines for large open-source projects.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal
JavaScript library for use by Microsoft Teams apps
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:15 reviews, 135 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily focused on setting up and configuring the CI/CD pipeline for the Microsoft Teams JavaScript library. Their work included creating and modifying Azure Pipelines configuration files to automate build, test, and deployment processes. They also addressed version bumping and added CODEOWNERS for automated pull requests, streamlining the development workflow. The user's contributions significantly improved the build and release automation.
Contributions:37 commits, 37 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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Christian Harper-cyr - Senior Firmware Engineer at Microsoft