Chris Brumme is a Distinguished Engineer who joined Microsoft as an architect on the Common Language Runtime team in 1997. For his first 8.5 years at Microsoft, Brumme was an architect on the Common Language Runtime in the Developer Division from the start of the project through shipping Version 2.0. Since then, Brumme has been one of the architects on an unannounced systems project.

Brumme spent 3.5 years at Oracle Corporation before coming to Microsoft. During this time he was the architect of the ill-fated Sedona tools project. He was also a member of Oracle’s Architecture Review Board and briefly worked in that company’s three-person corporate architecture group.

Before Oracle, Brumme worked for 6.5 years at Borland International as the architect of Borland’s Paradox for DOS product (versions 3.5 and 4.0) and the development lead for an integrated office product which was cancelled when Borland sold Quattro to Novell.

Brumme has received 28 patent cubes. He also published a popular blog on the internal workings of the Common Language Runtime, which can still be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/cbrumme/.

Brumme received B.A. degrees with honors in Biology and Classical Languages from the University of Hawaii.

He taught himself to program when he spent a year in bed with a broken back from a body-surfing accident.