Ivan Posva
Software Engineer at Databricks
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolIvan Posva is a software engineer with 14+ years of deep expertise in virtual machine technology, dynamic runtimes, JIT compilers and garbage collection, currently advancing AI runtime work at Databricks after a recent role as an AI Runtime Engineer at Modular. He spent over a decade at Google as a Principal Software Engineer and earlier held senior engineering roles at Azul Systems and Apple, consistently focusing on stability, scalability and performance for language runtimes. Ivan has contributed to notable open-source tooling such as the Dart pub package manager, making practical refactors and test improvements that keep developer-facing tools reliable. Based in Mountain View and trained at ETH Zürich, he combines research-rooted systems thinking with production-hardened engineering, often surfacing subtle correctness and performance fixes that pay off at scale.
14 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at ETH Zürich
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Github Skills (6)
dart10
package-management10
testing9
yaml8
optimization6
git4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dart-lang/pub
May 2012 - May 2015
The pub command line tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 comment in 3 years
Contributions summary:Ivan primarily contributed to the Dart pub package manager. Their commits focused on modifying core functionalities, including refactoring code, updating dependencies, and fixing bugs. These changes involved adjustments to the internal structure of the package manager, such as altering "static final" to "static const" and moving interfaces within the dart:isolate library. They also made updates to tests to ensure the reliability of the pub tool.
fluttercommand-line-tooldartpackage-manager
iposva-google/grpc
Dec 2019 - Jul 2020
The C based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#)
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
objective-ccpppythongrpcphp
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