João Paiva
Principal Software Architect - Azure Identity at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJoão Paiva is a Principal Software Architect specializing in Azure Identity with nine years at Microsoft driving resilient, secure, and cost-conscious cloud routing and identity platforms. He architects high-scale systems for Microsoft Graph and Azure Identity, focusing on availability, latency, and operational efficiency while aligning across Azure and M365 organizations. His background spans mapping, mixed reality, and mobile services, giving him deep experience in geospatial, 3D/AR, and full-stack distributed systems. An active contributor to the well-known OData .NET libraries, he has a practical eye for performance—reducing allocations and improving caching in core library components. Based in Bellevue, WA, João blends deep technical craftsmanship with product-minded architecture to deliver impactful, production-grade cloud services.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Systems Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Systems Engineering at Universidade do Minho
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Github Skills (9)
net10
asp-net10
dotnet10
csharp10
performance-optimization10
odata10
dotnet-core10
data-structure9
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
OData/odata.net
Jul 2021 - Sep 2021
ODataLib: Open Data Protocol - .NET Libraries and Frameworks
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:43 reviews, 5 commits, 9 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:João focused on optimizing and refactoring the OData .NET libraries. Their contributions include caching annotation data for performance improvements and streamlining code to avoid unnecessary memory allocations, specifically within the `PropertyCache` and `EdmDirectValueAnnotationsManager` classes. They addressed performance bottlenecks by reducing lambda and string allocations, enhancing the overall efficiency of the OData library's internal processes. Furthermore, they removed potential inefficiencies in the `ODataWriterCore` class.
dotnetscadaedifactopen-datacsharp
joaocpaiva/MixedRealityToolkit-Unity
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
MixedRealityToolkit-Unity uses code from the base MixedRealityToolkit repository and makes it easier to consume in Unity.
Contributions:3 PRs, 17 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
consumeunityunity3dmixedrealitytoolkit-unitymixedrealitytoolkit
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