José Ziviani
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolJosé Ziviani is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building and modernizing large-scale systems across virtualization, cloud, and enterprise services. Based in São Paulo, he has driven migrations and feature development at Microsoft for services reaching tens of millions of daily users and built tooling for Copilot GDPR compliance, while earlier work at IBM and SUSE focused on QEMU/KVM, Power architecture enablement, and packaging security fixes for Linux distributions. He combines low-level systems expertise in C/C++ and Python with cloud-native development in C# and Azure, and contributes to open-source projects such as the kimchi HTML5 KVM management interface where he added GPU passthrough and web serial console support. Known for taking on the hard, unglamorous problems others avoid, José also mentors engineers and authors technical documentation to accelerate team impact. His background includes a MSc in Engineering and specialized studies in complex data mining, reflecting a blend of systems-level rigor and data-driven thinking.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Specialization Complex Data Mining, Specialization Complex Data Mining at Universidade Estadual de CampinasPontifical Catholic University of Rio de JaneiroBsc IT, Bsc IT at UNISAL - Centro Universitário Salesiano de São Paulo
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (10)
libvirt10
kvm10
linux10
develop10
backend10
python10
api-design9
websocket9
api9
apim9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kimchi-project/kimchi
Mar 2015 - Aug 2016
An HTML5 management interface for KVM guests
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:86 commits, 1 PR, 27 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:José primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the "kimchi" project, an HTML5 management interface for KVM guests. Their work focused on addressing bugs, enhancing existing features, and implementing new functionalities. These changes included improving the handling of CPU information, adding support for different operating system distributions, and adding new features such as web serial console and GPU passthrough capabilities.
vdivmskvmlibvirtlinux
jrziviani/amps
Jan 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:127 commits, 88 pushes, 4 branches in 4 months
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