Julian Spadafora
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulian Spadafora is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and optimizing distributed systems, performance-critical infrastructure, and ML-driven features across Microsoft, Google, and MercadoLibre. He combines deep systems-level expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the RavenDB ACID document database around indexing, memory management, and bulk-insert compression—with practical ML and data-analysis experience from production recommendation work. Based in Redmond and educated at the University of Buenos Aires, he has repeatedly shipped improvements to build orchestration, storage, and runtime performance at large scale. Colleagues rely on him to bridge cross-functional teams, turning research and metrics into deployable, low-latency solutions. Less obvious: he frequently targets low-level threading and memory refactors to unlock higher-level product gains, showing a preference for durable engineering over quick fixes.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Combined Bacherlor's and Master's Computer Science, Combined Bacherlor's and Master's Computer Science at University of Buenos Aires
English, Spanish
Github Skills (17)
multithreading10
net10
memory-management10
databases10
dotnet10
indexing10
asp-net10
thread10
hyper-threading10
dotnet-core10
threaded10
csharp10
database10
nosql9
performance-optimization9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ravendb/ravendb
Sep 2016 - Nov 2017
ACID Document Database
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 20 PRs, 27 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Julian primarily focused on improving the RavenDB database's internal workings and performance. Their contributions involved addressing comments in pull requests and optimizing core indexing and memory management components, specifically in `Index.cs` and `AbstractPager.cs`. They also worked on improving the efficiency of bulk inserts by adding compression and reducing memory overhead. Further contributions included refactoring code to use newer threading and memory management features.
nosqlravendbnosql-data-storagenosql-databasesc-sharp
buildxl-team-collab/BuildXL
May 2019 - Nov 2019
Microsoft Build Accelerator
Contributions:207 pushes, 112 branches, 9 tags in 6 months
cppcmakewindowsmicrosoftbuild-tools
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