Julian Xhokaxhiu
Technical Lead at Virgin Media O2
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolJulian Xhokaxhiu is a Technical Lead with 14+ years delivering cloud-native infrastructure, observability and automation across startups and large enterprises from Barcelona. He combines hands-on DevOps and platform engineering—building CI/CD, Kubernetes and AWS-based game and digital platforms—with leadership roles that enable SRE, DevOps and security teams to get more value from logs, metrics and traces. A prolific open-source contributor, Julian has improved projects ranging from Bolt CMS and bgfx rendering to Microsoft's vcpkg, demonstrating cross-language fluency and a knack for fixing platform-level build and graphics issues. He’s equally at home architecting scalable automation for complex operations and writing practical integrations that solve real operational gaps. Notably, his background spans both frontend engineering and low-level graphics fixes, which gives him an uncommon blend of product-facing UX sensibility and systems-level troubleshooting.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
IT PRACTISED (Perito Informatico) Developer System Analyst and Electronics, IT PRACTISED (Perito Informatico) Developer System Analyst and Electronics at ITIS Leonardo Da Vinci
Italian, English, Albanian, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (54)
vulkan10
cms10
javascript10
c-language10
lib10
rendering10
testing10
build-system10
bolt10
cmake10
render10
graphic10
package-manager-tool10
release-management10
automation10
Programming languages (39)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vcpkg
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 2 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Julian primarily contributes to the `vcpkg` repository, focusing on updating package versions and fixing build configurations for various libraries. Their commits demonstrate expertise in package management and build system integration, including adjustments to CMake configurations and portfiles to ensure correct dependencies and build processes. The contributions directly influence the successful building and linking of C++ libraries across different platforms, including Windows, Linux, and macOS. These changes often involve bumping version numbers, integrating new versions of dependencies, and resolving build-related issues.
c-plus-plussetuptoolspackage-managermacoscplusplus
bkaradzic/bgfx
Jun 2020 - Aug 2022
Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.
Role in this project:Graphics/Rendering Engineer
Graphics/Rendering EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 6 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Julian primarily contributed to the `bgfx` rendering library, focusing on cross-platform graphics API implementations. Their work included fixing OpenGL initialization issues on Intel GPUs, optimizing rendering by disabling scissor testing in OpenGL under specific MSAA conditions, and bringing scissor functionality in Vulkan and Direct3D 12 in sync with other renderers. The user also added several Vulkan and Direct3D 12 enhancements, including MSAA support and screenshot features.
metalbgfxvulkanvulkan-apiagnostic
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