Christian Larson
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Kirkland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChristian Larson is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing, instrumenting, and optimizing media components and performance diagnostics at Microsoft. He specializes in C/C++ and C# development across Win32/COM/Media Foundation, with a proven track record improving camera startup, codec testing, and telemetry-driven performance analysis. Christian combines systems-level expertise (ETW, driver/codec pipelines, DSP wrappers) with practical tooling—visualizers, automation, and web-based logging—that speeds debugging and OEM certification. He brings a tester’s rigor to architectural work, often surfacing subtle performance regressions through custom instrumentation and data analysis. Based in Kirkland, WA, he pairs a deep embedded and multimedia background with a continual curiosity for new technologies and clear technical leadership.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineer, BS, Computer Engineer at Gonzaga University
Github Skills (41)
nuget10
pytorch10
ai-framework10
windows-desktop10
directml10
windows10
wdk10
machine-learning10
chromium10
winui10
onnx10
hardware-acceleration10
hardware10
windows-app-sdk10
keras10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/Windows-driver-samples
Dec 2022 - Oct 2025
This repo contains driver samples prepared for use with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Windows Driver Kit (WDK). It contains both Universal Windows Driver and desktop-only driver samples.
Contributions:10 reviews, 22 comments in 2 years 10 months
drivervisual-studiowdkwindowswindows-driver
chrilaMSFT/windows-driver-docs-ddi
May 2019 - May 2019
The official Windows Driver Kit DDI reference documentation sources
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
driversdriverwindows-driverwindowswmi
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