Christian Sarabia
I bridge tech, systems, and people.
Hey, I'm Christian! — Software engineer at Microsoft Azure in Melbourne, Filipino immigrant, and someone who takes impact seriously, but not myself. I build infrastructure, lead community programs, mentor early-career engineers, and obsess over perfumes. When I commit to something, it gets done. I work well with people, and I don't need hand-holding to get there. At the end of the day, I use what I know to empower people to do what they do best.
Work
I'm a software engineer at Microsoft Azure, working on hardware validation across 400+ datacenters around the world — making sure the infrastructure that powers the cloud is secure and reliable from factory to customer. I was promoted within my first year and have since taken on project leadership and stakeholder management alongside my engineering work, with minimal supervision.
I'm also an Early-in-Career lead for Microsoft Melbourne — making sure EiCs have the onboarding, support, and experience they deserve. I volunteer for everything, I do the ground work, and I genuinely love it. The people I work with make me better at what I do, and I try to do the same for them.
Before Microsoft, I interned at Citibank / Citi as a Summer Analyst, where I built a tool that saves analysts 8 hours a month globally and led the migration of manual workflows into an AI virtual assistant. Received the return offer for the exclusive Citibank Management Trainee program.
When I commit to something, I deliver. I care a lot about doing things that actually matter — and doing them with people, not just next to them.
Community
Building things alone has never been my thing. The best work I've done has always had people at the center of it.
At PinoyTech Victoria, I help Filipino tech professionals find their footing in Australia — through mentorship, digital transformation consulting, and the kind of support I wish I had when I first moved here. At Microsoft, I lead the Early-in-Career program for Melbourne — because the instinct is the same everywhere: make sure people have what they need to do their best work.
Before that, I spent four years at Ateneo CODE, providing Organisation Development consultancy to over 60 youth organisations nationwide in the Philippines. I've been a facilitator, a logistics head, a secretariat lead — whatever the work needed.
I care about this because I know what it's like to build from scratch in a new place. If I can make that easier for someone else, that's the whole point.