Christopher Wilcox

Developer. Googler. Racer.

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About.

Chris is a staff engineer at Google. He brings a passion for making space for everyone in technology and enabling developers everywhere through better tools and libraries.


His current focus is making it possible for folks at Google to use Git and GitHub (Enterprise Server and GitHub.com) for their work at Alphabet. This work is part of Google's Cloud and Open Ecosystems division which focuses on enabling Googlers to use GCP and other external technologies to build Google's Next Big Thing.


Previously at Google, Chris worked on Terraform Infrastructure, Cloud Infrastructure Automation, Hybrid Connectivity (connecting Google Cloud to Google's Internal Infrastructure), and in Google Cloud creating client libraries across a variety of programming languages to enable developers to use the platform.


Before Google Chris was at Microsoft focusing on improving the developer experience for .NET, Python, and Node.js developers. Chris was part of the team that authored the first managed .NET compiler (Roslyn) which enabled further developments for developer tooling. Chris worked on Azure Networking early on in Azure, focused on control plane development. The majority of his time at Microsoft focused on Developer Tooling. Chris was a core team member for Python and Node.js Tools, and was a founding member which created Azure Notebooks, one of the first Jupyter based development environments. It was the inspiration for a variety of systems that exist now as part of Microsoft Azure.

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