Summary
Christopher Harrison is a Senior Enterprise Advocate at GitHub with 14 years of experience blending web and data development with developer education and cloud advocacy. A longtime trainer and content creator, he built highly viewed Python and web-development curricula at Microsoft—including a Python for Beginners series with over 3.5 million YouTube views—and consistently translates product feedback from students and educators into actionable improvements. He is passionate about TypeScript and Python, routinely demos practical solutions that bridge documentation, learning platforms, and real-world developer workflows. Based in Seattle, Christopher combines hands-on engineering with a teacher’s instincts, and is known internally as “the official teacher of all things GitHub,” bringing rare depth in both community engagement and technical advocacy.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Duluth
AAS, Computer Networking, AAS, Computer Networking at Academy Education Center
English, c#