Julian Pinzer
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJulian Pinzer is a Software Engineer II in Boston with 11 years of experience focused on software supply chain security and backend/devops engineering at Microsoft. He has a strong track record contributing to high-impact open-source projects like Dependabot—improving Docker image parsing and adding OpenTelemetry instrumentation to aid observability. Julian started as a mobile and SDK engineer (OneDrive) and progressed through internships to a security-focused role, combining practical mobile, backend, and infrastructure skills. Comfortable working remotely since the pandemic, he pairs hands-on coding with thoughtful monitoring and debugging practices. A WPI computer science graduate, he also brings early mentorship and hardware-robotics experience that reflect a long-standing curiosity for building both software and tools.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
St. John's PrepBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (9)
opentelemetry10
rspec10
docker10
dependabot10
dockers10
ruby10
automation-testing9
automation9
automations9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
dependabot/dependabot-core
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
🤖 Dependabot's core logic for creating update PRs.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:17 reviews, 11 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Julian primarily contributed to the core logic of Dependabot, specifically addressing issues related to parsing Docker image versions with date-based prefixes. They improved the parsing logic and tests to handle the new format. Additionally, the user added Open Telemetry spans throughout the codebase to help with monitoring and debugging of the update process. They also addressed some issues related to the Open Telemetry implementation, including adding a shutdown call and fixing issues with metric incrementation.
dependenciespythonelmorgslogic
jpinz/OSSGadget
Dec 2021 - Oct 2022
Collection of tools for analyzing open source packages.
Contributions:173 pushes, 45 branches in 10 months
analyzingpython
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