Jovan Stevanovic
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Belgrade, Central Serbia
Summary
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Top SchoolJovan Stevanovic is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft working on Azure SQL, bringing six years of experience across research and production engineering. He holds a Master’s in Software Engineering from the University of Belgrade and spent several years at Oracle advancing GraalVM Native Image—authoring in-memory resource filesystems and sampling/instrumentation profilers to boost startup and runtime performance. His background spans C++ gameplay systems at Ubisoft to low-level JVM-native interoperability and performance tuning, giving him a rare blend of game-dev pragmatism and systems research rigor. Based in Belgrade, he’s passionate about emerging tech, continuous learning, and endurance sports, which he credits for sustaining focus during long optimization cycles.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at University of Belgrade, School of Electrical Engineering
Serbian, English
Github Skills (6)
javas10
filesystem10
resource-management10
java10
performance-optimization9
build-system7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
oracle/graal
Mar 2020 - Oct 2025
GraalVM compiles applications into native executables that start instantly, scale fast, and use fewer compute resources 🚀
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Performance Engineer
Back-end Developer & Performance EngineerContributions:116 reviews, 29 PRs, 198 comments in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jovan's commits primarily focused on improving resource support within the GraalVM project, specifically by implementing a resource in-memory file system. This involved modifying the `NativeImageResourceFileSystem` class to enable resource management and related file system operations. Additionally, the user addressed checkstyle errors and applied fixes to various benchmarks, including Neo4j and Finagle, which demonstrates a focus on optimization and performance improvements within the GraalVM ecosystem.
graalvmjavaaotcompiler
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
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