Christopher Wilcox

About Christopher Wilcox

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 at Google is enabling the success of other Googlers by creating technology to connect internal, proprietary hosting platforms to Google Cloud, enabling teams to make the most of both stacks.Previously at Google, Chris worked 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.

Experience

1. Staff Software Engineer

   Google

   Oct 2020 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   I work to enable other Google teams to leverage the best parts of our production infrastructure alongside the best parts of Google Cloud, enabling Alphabet companies to consume public cloud in a secure and privacy ensuring way. I spend most of my time coding in Go at the moment, though have spent time on Python and Node.js in the past. Generally I’ve worked across a number of languages, particularly while on client libraries where supporting a variety of languages is critical to enabling the various customers (.NET, Go, Java, Node, PHP, Python, Ruby). Projects- Google Core: Cloud Control UTL: March 2025 - Now- Google Core: Cloud Control Measurement TL: February 2024 - March 2025- Google Core: Hybrid Connectivity TL: November 2021 - February 2024- Google/Apple Exposure Notifications: Server/Databases TL: March 2020 - August 2022- Google Cloud Client Libraries for Databases: TL: March 2018 - November 2021- Google Cloud Client Libraries for Go: March 2018 - November 2021- Google Cloud Client Libraries for Python: TL: March 2018 - November 2021

Education

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Bachelors of Science, Computer Engineering & Computer Science

  2007 — 2011

Skills

• Shell Scripting
• Technical Leadership
• Java
• Testing
• C#
• Windows
• Visual Studio
• Software Development
• Python
• Computer Science
• Web Applications
• Distributed Systems