Christopher Boumenot
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Boumenot is a Principal Software Engineer with 13+ years of hands-on experience building cloud, virtualization, and back-end systems at Microsoft and earlier companies like DynamicOps and Stratus. He’s a true generalist who has transitioned from hardware and Verilog to Linux and Windows stacks, contributing production-ready code in Python, Go, C#, and C/C++. His work spans virtualization and private cloud platforms (VMware, Xen, Hyper-V, EC2), Azure Linux tooling, and notable open-source contributions such as adding NTLM WinRM support and Windows build tooling to HashiCorp Packer. Comfortable across low-level systems and high-level .NET frameworks (WCF, WF, EF), he also applies data mining, machine learning, and big-data experience to operational and automation problems. Based in Redmond, he pairs a pragmatist’s emphasis on TDD and deployment automation with a long-standing enthusiasm for functional programming and continuous learning.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MS Electrical Engineering, MS Electrical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (21)
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linux10
data-serialization10
microsoft-azure10
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go10
api10
azure10
telemetry10
security9
apidoc9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/WALinuxAgent
Jan 2017 - Aug 2018
Microsoft Azure Linux Guest Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 releases, 132 commits, 133 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Christopher's contributions centered around improving the Azure Linux Agent. They fixed a typo in a log message and computed durations for various events. The user added a -show-configuration option to the agent and also implemented a GuestState telemetry event after provisioning, along with improved telemetry messages. Other changes included the removal of ifup/ifdown on Ubuntu >=17.10 and capturing stack traces for debugging purposes, along with various bug fixes.
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Azure/azure-linux-extensions
Mar 2016 - Sep 2018
Linux Virtual Machine Extensions for Azure
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:76 commits, 72 PRs, 56 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on improving the `VMAccess` extension, a tool for managing Linux VM access. Their contributions involved enhancing security through forced configuration of the ChallengeResponseAuthentication setting and the rejection of empty passwords. They also addressed bugs related to account management, including the ability to expire accounts and correcting install status reporting.
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