Christopher Chenery
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChristopher Chenery is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with seven years in his current professional trajectory and a total of over a decade contributing to commercial engineering teams. He specializes in backend performance and code quality improvements, notably optimizing Adaptive Cards’ base64 decoding and JSON parsing to reduce allocations and eliminate antipatterns like exceptions-for-flow. Comfortable working across long-lived product codebases, he brings a pragmatic focus on refactoring, maintainability and measurable performance gains. Based in Stony Stratford, England, he blends enterprise experience from Dassault Systèmes and Microsoft with a foundation in computer science from Curtin University. Colleagues describe him as someone who prefers improving systems quietly through targeted, high-impact changes rather than flashy rewrites.
7 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Curtin University
Github Skills (5)
json10
adaptive-cards10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
performance-optimization10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/AdaptiveCards
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
A new way for developers to exchange card content in a common and consistent way.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 19 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Christopher focused on optimizing performance and improving code quality within the Adaptive Cards project. Their contributions include refactoring base64 decoding, enhancing JSON parsing efficiency, and reducing unnecessary string copies to improve overall performance. The user also addressed various code quality issues, such as removing exceptions for flow control and refactoring functions to use references instead of copies. These changes contributed to the project's efficiency and maintainability.
exchangeadaptiveioswpfadaptivecards
chriche-ms/AdaptiveCards
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
A new way for developers to exchange card content in a common and consistent way.
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 18 branches in 2 months
exchangeandroidconsistentfor-developersflutter
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