Rico Mariani
Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft
Kirkland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRico Mariani is a Distinguished Engineer based in Kirkland with decades of platform-centric engineering leadership across Microsoft and Meta, focused on performance engineering, compilers, 3D graphics, and real-time systems. He blends deep hands‑on expertise—ranging from low‑level runtime and compiler work to graphics and OS concerns—with a knack for driving cultural and organizational change. A proven communicator and mentor, he prefers platform problems that unlock productivity for large developer ecosystems. His career traces long tenures at Microsoft punctuated by a senior engineering role at Meta, reflecting both product and partner-facing technical stewardship. Although active across many domains, he still writes Android code and keeps an engineer’s curiosity for new problem spaces.
10 years of coding experience
44 years of employment as a software developer
Downsview Secondary SchoolBMath Computer Science, BMath Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Italian, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (5)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
xwdoor/Roommate--Client
Mar 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 1 year 9 months
xwdoor/SuperAdapter
Apr 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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