Kobi Nauenberg is a software engineer with eight years of experience building performance-focused systems across enterprise and research environments. His background includes work on the OpenJ9 Java JIT optimizer at IBM, cross‑architecture tooling, and production roles at Genesys and Veeva, giving him strengths in low-level performance, tooling, and scalable application delivery. He pairs an electrical and electronics engineering foundation from the University of Toronto with hands-on experience shipping compiler improvements, test automation, and cross-platform software. Outside core engineering he has organized community-focused programs at the University of Toronto, reflecting an interest in meaningful, impact-driven work. Currently based in Canada, he continues to grow toward roles that blend technical depth with purpose-driven projects.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Toronto
Eclipse OpenJ9: A Java Virtual Machine for OpenJDK that's optimized for small footprint, fast start-up, and high throughput. Builds on Eclipse OMR (https://github.com/eclipse/omr) and combines with the Extensions for OpenJDK for OpenJ9 repo.
Contributions:6 PRs, 64 pushes, 8 branches in 4 months
runtimeextensionseclipseomrvirtual-machine
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