Christopher Schraer
Principal Engineer at Microsoft
Sammamish, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Schraer is a Principal Engineer with seven years of progressive software engineering experience at Microsoft, where he advanced from Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer and now leads as a Principal Engineer. Based in Sammamish, Washington, he has a solid background building device-focused systems on the Windows platform and prior experience developing access control solutions for Ticketmaster. His career began with embedded and systems work at General Dynamics C4 Systems and matured through internal application development and teaching data structures, giving him a strong foundation in both systems design and mentorship. Christopher blends hands-on implementation with architectural thinking, helping teams deliver reliable, production-grade software at scale. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Texas at San Antonio and is known for translating complex device and access-control requirements into practical, auditable solutions. An understated strength is his continuity within a single large product ecosystem, which gives him deep institutional knowledge and a knack for navigating long-term technical evolution.
7 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Texas at San Antonio
Github Skills (71)
command-line-interface10
bots10
swagger10
voice-commands10
speech10
wpf10
get-started10
microsoft-cognitive-services10
dotnet10
voiceover10
voice10
api10
sdk10
rest10
azure10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Azure-Samples/Cognitive-Services-Direct-Line-Speech-Client
Oct 2019 - Apr 2020
Demonstrates usage of the Speech SDK to manage voice communication with your Bot-Framework bot, registered with Direct Line Speech channel
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
voice-communicationspeech-to-textbotspeech-recognitioncommunication
chschrae/chschrae-openai-in-typespec
Sep 2024 - Sep 2024
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
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