Summary
Christopher Rosenblatt is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft who leads a small team responsible for the FrontEnd reverse proxy load balancer for Azure App Service, processing over 160 billion HTTP requests per day. He combines hands-on systems engineering—working extensively with Kestrel, YARP, .NET 8, TLS/mTLS termination, DDOS protection, and distributed health checks—with leadership in monthly fleet rollouts across 1500+ multitenant scale units. Before management he was a core engineer who helped migrate the service from IIS/HTTP.sys to a Kestrel/YARP stack, an effort documented in a public Azure engineering post. A Purdue CS and Math double major (2020), he brings eight years of experience spanning production-grade APIs, CI/CD automation, and research tooling. He’s known for driving pragmatic library changes upstream (collaborating with the ASP.NET Core team) to meet high-scale, real-world requirements.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Purdue University