Christopher Bennage
Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Tallahassee, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Bennage is a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 16 years of experience leading cloud transformation, solution architecture, and high-performing cross-functional teams. He has repeatedly partnered with strategic enterprise customers to solve mission-critical problems, turning field learnings into open-source guidance such as the Azure Architecture Center and contributions to performance-optimization tooling. Equally comfortable in hands-on engineering and senior leadership, he blends backend/cloud expertise (including Azure storage and async blob uploads) with a talent for shaping product strategy and responsible design. His background includes founding consulting firms and early work on UI and distributed systems, giving him a rare mix of startup pragmatism and enterprise-scale discipline. Based in Tallahassee, he brings a disciplined approach to operational readiness and governance that underpins Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework. Observing → reasoning → acting is more than a motto for him; it describes a career habit of turning measured insights into durable engineering outcomes.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BA Religious Studies, BA Religious Studies at Florida State University
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Github Skills (17)
azure-sdk10
cloud-infrastructure10
performance-optimization10
csharp10
silverlight9
animation9
wpf9
powershell9
aspnet-web-api8
nuget7
datagrid6
assemblies6
databinding6
caliburn6
caliburn-micro6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mspnp/performance-optimization
Jan 2015 - Sep 2016
Guidance on how to observe, measure, and correct common issues in a cloud-based system.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Back-end & Cloud EngineerContributions:114 commits, 24 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the back-end infrastructure of the project, focusing on cloud-based system improvements. Their work involved updating references to Azure SDKs, scripting SQL Azure provisioning, and modifying project configurations related to NuGet targets. The commits also include the integration of asynchronous file uploads to Azure Blob storage, indicating a focus on cloud storage and performance optimization within the C# environment. Several commits reflect code cleanup and refactoring.
correctperformance-optimizationcloud-applicationscaleanti-patterns
ayende/Alexandria
Feb 2010 - Feb 2010
Contributions:55 commits in 8 days
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