Chris Roberts
Principal Software Engineer (FDE) at Microsoft / GitHub
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Roberts is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years at Microsoft and a long background in consulting, helping organizations adopt Azure, DevOps, and Microsoft platform investments. He partners directly with customers to translate business needs into practical cloud solutions and feeds those insights back into product decisions to shape developer experience. Prior roles as a Senior Architect and Agile coach reflect deep experience in enterprise application design, ALM, and driving delivery across web and mobile landscapes. Based in Redmond, he blends hands-on engineering with customer advocacy, which helps bridge gaps between real-world usage and product roadmaps. An avid technologist who brands himself @coderandhiker, he brings a practical curiosity—testing new approaches in the field and returning learnings to both customers and engineering teams.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Github Skills (27)
azure-app-configuration10
vsix10
azure-application-insights10
architecture10
azure-keyvault10
reference-implementation10
dotnet10
azure-sql-database10
azure-app-service10
azure-frontdoor10
visual-studio-extension10
azd-templates10
myget10
azure10
microsoft9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/reliable-web-app-pattern-java
Jul 2023 - Jul 2026
The reliable web app pattern is a set of objectives to help your web application converge on the cloud. This repo contains a reference implementation of a reliable web application for Java.
Contributions:6 reviews, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years
javamicrosoftarchitectureazd-templatesazure
Azure/modern-web-app-pattern-java
Mar 2025 - Oct 2025
The Modern Web App Pattern is a set of objectives to help you apply an iterative change to modernize a cloud deployed monolith. This content builds on the Reliable Web App. This repo contains a reference implementation of a Modern Web App for Java.
Contributions:1 review, 1 issue in 7 months
javaarchitectureazuremicrosoftreference-implementation
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