Summary
Christopher Rodriguez is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft with a decade of engineering experience and a background in leading student tech organizations and large campus events. He co-founded INIT while continuing to ship features at Microsoft, blending startup grit with product-scale engineering. A former president of Upsilon Pi Epsilon at FIU and long-time board member of its alumni association, he brings proven leadership in organizing hackathons, securing sponsorships, and building web tools that enable communities. Comfortable across the stack, Christopher has interned at multiple major companies and translates classroom learning into production systems. Based in Seattle, he’s a self-described “Web Magician” and gamepad enthusiast whose curiosity about retro tech and 80s culture often surfaces in creative side projects.
10 years of coding experience