Alexis Christoforides


Software engineer & consultant · Boston, MA

I work on operating systems, language runtimes, embedded hardware, developer tooling, and scientific data analysis software.

Over the past fifteen years I've done this at Wilderness Labs, Microsoft, Xamarin, and TGen. I take on a small number of contract engagements each year — reach out if you have something interesting.

Resume (PDF)

Embedded & IoT systems
Hardware bringup, RTOS integration, hardware abstraction layers, OTA update infrastructure, and running managed runtimes on constrained hardware. This work led to Meadow.OS, a production embedded OS that brings .NET to microcontrollers.
Runtime & platform engineering
Deep .NET and Mono runtime work: JIT/AOT compilation, interop layers, CLR internals, porting managed code to new platforms. Several years as a core contributor to Mono, the open-source runtime that powered Xamarin, plus work on the Roslyn compiler and F# toolchain.
Developer tooling & build systems
Build infrastructure, cross-platform packaging, and CI/CD for complex native projects. This includes bockbuild, Mono's macOS build and packaging system, which I maintained for several years.
Scientific computing & bioinformatics
Genomics pipelines, sequencing data analysis, and cancer mutation detection. Three years of this work at TGen, contributing to the 1000 Genomes Project and co-authoring 41+ peer-reviewed papers cited over 11,000 times. Tools include Seurat, for somatic mutation analysis from paired tumor/normal sequencing.

I take on contract work in the areas above — typically project-based or short retainers. If you think there's a fit, I'd like to hear about it.