Christopher Scott
Principal Software Engineer at GitHub
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Scott is a Principal Software Engineer on the Azure Developer Platform with 12+ years of experience designing and shipping developer-focused SDKs and cloud services from within Microsoft. He began his career as an escalation support engineer debugging Windows down to assembly, a foundation that informs his pragmatic, reliability-first approach to complex systems and SDK design. Christopher has led full-stack teams and built production engineering infrastructure—CI/CD, telemetry, resiliency and developer productivity tooling—while driving platform architecture and customer-facing web experiences. He now focuses on the Azure client SDK for .NET, contributing notable improvements to azure-sdk-for-net and AutoRest.CSharp to make libraries more testable, robust, and discoverable. Comfortable working in the open, he actively leverages GitHub community feedback to evolve APIs and coding patterns. Based in Austin, he blends deep low-level debugging chops with modern cloud-native and developer experience expertise.
12 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BS Management Information Systems, Management Information Systems, BS Management Information Systems, Management Information Systems at University of Central Florida
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Github Skills (22)
azure-sdk10
net10
dotnet10
asp-net10
code-generation10
xml-documentation10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
json-serialization10
testing9
azure-table-storage9
azure9
dependency-injection8
powershell6
wpf6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-sdk-for-net
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for .NET. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-net.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3684 reviews, 436 commits, 1325 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Christopher's contributions primarily focused on the enhancement of the AzureServiceTokenProvider class within the Azure SDK for .NET. The user made changes to make the class mockable for testing purposes and added new functionality. Additionally, the user updated the version of the Microsoft.Azure.Services.AppAuthentication package and modified the projects files.
azureazure-sdkdotnetmicrosoftc-sharp
Azure/autorest.csharp
Apr 2020 - Jul 2022
Extension for AutoRest (https://github.com/Azure/autorest) that generates C# code
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:43 reviews, 6 commits, 17 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Christopher contributed to the AutoRest.CSharp project by implementing enhancements related to code generation, particularly in the handling of data types and XML documentation. The user added support for additional data types within the Utf8JsonWriterExtensions for serialization. They also introduced optional cref hints to inheritdoc comments and modified the order of disposal for XmlWriterContent, improving code quality. Furthermore, the user handled double.NaN scenarios in the serialization process.
autorestazurecsharp
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