Sven Groot
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSven Groot is a Senior Software Engineer based in Redmond with 14 years of experience building high-performance, large-scale distributed systems and OS-level platforms. He holds an M.Sc. from Leiden University and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, where his research focused on data-intensive processing and informed later work on distributed ML infrastructure. Since joining Microsoft in 2013 he has contributed to kernel and subsystem projects—including the Windows Subsystem for Linux and Android app support on Windows Phone—and helped design async runtimes and IPC frameworks from research to production. Comfortable at the intersection of research and engineering, he brings deep systems-level expertise in performance, runtime design, and scalable ML platforms. Colleagues rely on him for solving tricky low-level problems that enable higher-level distributed workflows.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Leiden UniversityUniversity of Tokyo
Github Skills (77)
confidential-computing10
command-palette10
getopt10
ookii10
dotnet10
argparse10
command-line-parser10
rust10
parsing10
wsl210
argument-parsing10
parse10
kebab-case10
completions10
windows-subsystem-for-linux9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SvenGroot/GenerateAnswerFile
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
A command-line tool and library to generate answer files (unattend.xml or autounattend.xml) for unattended Windows installation.
Contributions:8 releases, 37 PRs, 139 pushes in 2 years 2 months
SvenGroot/JumboCore
Sep 2022 - Feb 2025
A large scale distributed file system and data processing engine, similar to Hadoop, created for learning purposes.
Contributions:17 PRs, 96 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years 5 months
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