Anna Mayzner
Software Engineer at SPECS
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAnna Mayzner is a software engineer based in London with four years of experience building performant backend systems at Google, currently focused on Perfetto — a high-profile open-source project for system profiling and trace analysis. She specializes in trace processor optimization and memory-efficiency improvements, having contributed targeted changes to data structures and process tracking that reduce footprint and improve sorter behavior. Her background spans C++ systems work on Autopilot resource management and Android Backup & Restore, giving her practical experience across large-scale, production-grade infrastructure. With academic roots in biotechnology and mathematics from the University of Warsaw, she brings a quantitative mindset to performance engineering and metrics. Colleagues benefit from her blend of low-level systems expertise and a measured, metrics-driven approach to complex debugging and optimization.
4 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Licencjat (Lic.), Mathematics, Licencjat (Lic.), Mathematics at University of Warsaw
Github Skills (7)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
performance-optimization10
data-structure9
data-structures9
debugging9
sql8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
google/perfetto
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Production-grade client-side tracing, profiling, and analysis for complex software systems.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer / Performance Engineer
Backend Developer / Performance EngineerContributions:266 reviews, 161 commits, 208 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Anna primarily focused on optimizing the Perfetto codebase to reduce memory usage, specifically in the `trace_processor` component. Their commits involved modifications to the `TimestampedTracePiece` and related data structures to improve efficiency, particularly within the trace sorter. Furthermore, the user worked on clearing the `ProcessTracker` contents after a `NotifyEndOfFile` and implemented error offset handling within messaging. The user also contributed to metrics by adding a p-state function, showing involvement in both core functionality and performance analysis.
profiling
aMayzner/WarOrphans
Mar 2026 - Mar 2026
Contributions:20 pushes in 2 days
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