Christopher Oo
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Oo is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft with 11 years of experience building virtualization and cloud infrastructure, currently focused on Hyper-V, OpenVMM, and OpenHCL. Based in Redmond, he progressed through hands-on engineering roles to lead design and delivery of core virtualization features that power enterprise and cloud platforms. He combines deep systems-level expertise with a pragmatic approach to reliability and performance, often working at the intersection of hardware compatibility and hypervisor integration. A University of Michigan College of Engineering alumnus, he is known for steady, incremental impact across long-lived platform projects and for translating low-level complexity into maintainable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at University of Michigan College of Engineering
Github Skills (27)
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confidential-computing10
firmware10
memory-dump10
rust10
consumption9
arm9
frontend8
bitfield8
linux8
range-map8
linux-kernel8
crate7
pkg7
compiler7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/igvm
Aug 2023 - Jun 2026
Contributions:3 releases, 69 reviews, 80 PRs in 2 years 9 months
chris-oo/openvmm
Nov 2024 - Jul 2026
Home of OpenVMM and OpenHCL.
Contributions:9 PRs, 561 pushes, 244 branches in 1 year 8 months
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