Kristof Roomp
Principal Software Architect at Microsoft
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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SeniorKristof Roomp is a Principal Software Architect based in Madrid with over two decades of hands-on experience designing large-scale storage and cloud infrastructure. He led storage architecture for Exchange Online and Outlook.com at Microsoft and previously architected Niobe, a cloud storage system that scaled to multiple petabytes. As a co-founder of NCompass Labs he helped build a web content management product that was acquired by Microsoft, demonstrating both entrepreneurial and engineering chops. His background includes building high-throughput payment and content systems (Xbox Live Points, Microsoft Content Management Server), showing a knack for reliable, mission-critical platforms. Known for translating ambitious scale requirements into pragmatic architectures, he blends deep systems expertise with product-focused delivery. Colleagues would note his uncommon combination of long-term operational experience and early startup leadership.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
German, Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (39)
azure-storage10
deflate10
simd10
compression10
rust10
docker-image9
delete-files9
intrinsics9
lz49
pixel9
pdf9
zlib9
png9
azurite9
compiler9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mcroomp/wide
Feb 2023 - Dec 2025
A crate to help you go wide. By which I mean use SIMD stuff.
Contributions:253 pushes, 55 branches in 2 years 10 months
microsoft/lepton_jpeg_rust
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Port of DropBox Lepton compression to Rust
Contributions:89 reviews, 60 commits, 190 PRs in 2 months
compressiondropboxrust
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