Julian Friedman
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Meta
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJulian Friedman is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in London with over a decade of hands-on experience building cloud-native, scalable systems and leading delivery algorithms and platform teams. He has deep roots in the Cloud Foundry and Knative ecosystems—founding the Eirini project, serving on Knative’s Technical Oversight Committee, and ranking among the top contributors to Knative Serving. At IBM he led open-source strategy and container engine work that secured large multitenant environments, and more recently he drove delivery algorithms at Deliveroo before joining Meta. His contributions span back-end systems, devops and test automation, and front-end docs/site work—evident from migrating Knative docs to MkDocs and adding versioning and UX improvements. Julian blends research rigor (EngD in Large Scale Complex IT Systems) with pragmatic engineering, often simplifying complex infrastructure into practical solutions. He’s known for quietly bridging community influence and production-grade engineering across major cloud projects.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Engineering (EngD) Large Scale Complex IT Systems, Doctor of Engineering (EngD) Large Scale Complex IT Systems at University of YorkMaster of Engineering (MEng) Computer Science, Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Science at University of Warwick
Github Skills (35)
autoscaling10
kubernetes10
url-encoding10
cloud-foundry10
back-end-development10
testing10
configuration-management10
proxy10
websocket10
mkdocs10
cicd10
ruby10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
serverless10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
knative/serving
Jan 2020 - Jan 2022
Kubernetes-based, scale-to-zero, request-driven compute
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:885 reviews, 260 commits, 260 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Julian focused on maintaining and improving the Knative Serving project by fixing typos in comments and refactoring parts of the codebase. They were involved in moving autoscaler configuration into a subpackage, updating various dependencies and adding features such as allowing the setting of a default PodAutoscalerClass, and addressing domain mapping related tasks. This indicates a focus on improving the code quality and adding features related to the autoscaling capabilities of the project.
golangzerodeveloper-productivitynetworkingserverless
knative/docs
Jul 2020 - Nov 2021
User documentation for Knative components.
Role in this project:Technical Writer & Front-end Developer
Technical Writer & Front-end DeveloperContributions:172 reviews, 60 commits, 66 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Julian primarily focused on updating and improving the documentation for the Knative project, migrating it to the MkDocs framework. They restructured the documentation by renaming files, autogenerating navigation, and adding headers. They also made front-end modifications to the site, including styling the homepage, adding a cookie warning banner, and fixing aspect ratios. Furthermore, the user implemented versioning for the documentation, allowing for easy access to multiple releases.
paasuser-documentationserverlessknativeistio
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