Christian Harper-cyr
Senior Firmware Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Harper-cyr is a Senior Firmware Engineer with 10 years of experience building low-level systems, device drivers, and resource-constrained embedded software across Microsoft and Axon. He combines systems programming, high-performance tracing, and full-stack prototyping—ranging from MCU FreeRTOS firmware and HoloLens BSP drivers to web API refactors and CI/CD automation for a widely used Microsoft Teams library. Known for pairing hardware-sensitive development with robust testing and tooling, he frequently collaborates with electrical engineers and integrates logic-analyzer driven validation into delivery. Based in Seattle with an MSc in Computer Engineering, he’s driven by a curiosity to understand systems deeply—evidenced by personal OS development and contributions that streamlined build-and-release pipelines for large open-source projects.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal
French, English
Github Skills (8)
azure-pipelines10
automation10
automations10
cicd10
yaml10
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
versioning8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-library-js
Oct 2020 - Jan 2022
JavaScript library for use by Microsoft Teams apps
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:15 reviews, 135 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily focused on setting up and configuring the CI/CD pipeline for the Microsoft Teams JavaScript library. Their work included creating and modifying Azure Pipelines configuration files to automate build, test, and deployment processes. They also addressed version bumping and added CODEOWNERS for automated pull requests, streamlining the development workflow. The user's contributions significantly improved the build and release automation.
javascriptmicrosoft-teams
Calistian/mm
Jan 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:37 commits, 37 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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