Steven Malis
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Malis is a Senior Software Engineer in Boston with 11 years of experience building high-quality software at Microsoft and a background in C.S. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Currently focusing on Rust, he brings deep systems and rendering expertise—evidenced by contributions to the linebender/piet 2D graphics library, where he added text strikethrough support and optimized Direct2D brush caching for better performance. He has progressed through multiple engineering roles at Microsoft, shipping products and mentoring peers while maintaining a hands-on approach to full-stack problems. Comfortable moving between low-level graphics work and broader application engineering, he combines production-focused pragmatism with a strong interest in performance and rendering fidelity.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
English
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Github Skills (5)
caching10
rust10
direct2d10
text-rendering10
graphic9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
linebender/piet
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
An abstraction for 2D graphics.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 14 commits, 6 PRs in 10 days
Contributions summary:Steven implemented strikethrough formatting support, adding related attributes to the text rendering and layout systems. They modified core files within the `piet` library, extending text attributes and integrating these changes into samples. The user also refactored the code to cache solid color brushes in Direct2D, improving performance. Further commits involved specializing fill and stroke operations for enhanced rendering.
2d-graphics2dopenglabstractiongraphics
smmalis37/ZBot
Jan 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:25 commits, 7 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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