Christopher Wilcox

Developer. Googler. Racer.

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About.

Chris brings a passion for making space for everyone in technology and enabling developers everywhere through better tools and libraries. He is often called upon to tackle emerging projects that require rapid assessment and action.


As a Staff Engineer and TLM at Google, Chris works in Google’s AI Foundations division and leads the GitHub Source team. His work enables hundreds of organizations to contribute to tens-of-thousands of repositories on GitHub.com. Chris’ mission is to establish Git based source control as a top tier offering at Alphabet, creating an alternative to the legacy source control systems that have been in use for decades. In addition to GitHub.com, Chris collaborates with Google’s GitHub Enterprise Server team, which provides a self-hosted, internally available version of GitHub. Together they ensure all Googlers can use Git, regardless of if it is open source or not.


During the global pandemic, Chris volunteered to help create an exposure notification system. He stood up the team that built the backend service that would support Apple and Android devices providing contact tracing data to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. This team delivered a system that was deployed by multiple nations across a variety of cloud platforms.


Prior to his work on exposure notifications and the Git ecosystem, Chris worked to make it possible for Googlers to use GCP and other external technologies to build Google's Next Big Thing. This included work on Terraform infrastructure, cloud infrastructure automation, and hybrid connectivity to connect Google Cloud to Google's internal infrastructure. Chris also built client libraries across a variety of programming languages to enable developers to use Google Cloud.


Before Google, Chris was at Microsoft focusing on improving the developer experience for .NET, Python, and Node.js developers. He helped author the first managed .NET compiler (Roslyn) and was an early contributor control plane development in Azure Networking. The majority of his time at Microsoft focused on Developer Tooling. Chris was a core team member for Python and Node.js Tools, and a founding member of the team that created Azure Notebooks, one of the first Jupyter-based development environments. It was the inspiration for systems like Azure ML Studio that exist now as a core part of Microsoft Azure.

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