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 information gathering 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. This is part of a broader goal of making Git based source control a top tier offering at Alphabet, competing with the legacy source control systems that have been in use for decades. Beyond GitHub.com, Chris collaborates closely with the team responsible for maintaining GitHub Enterprise Server; a self hosted, internal only version of GitHub.


The global pandemic presented an opportunity to create an exposure notifications system. Chris created the team that built the backend service that would support Apple and Android devices to provide data and help prevent the spread of COVID-19. This team delivered an operable system capable of running across cloud platforms, operated by a variety of nations.


Before working on improving Google’s Git Ecosystem, Chris worked to enable Googlers to use GCP and other external technologies to build Google's Next Big Thing. This presented opportunities to work 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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