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.
15 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 (66)
confidential-computing10
msbuild-task10
ookii10
dotnet10
powershell10
rust10
posix10
windows-subsystem-for-linux10
argument-parsing10
command-line10
task-dialog9
windows9
command-line-tool9
class-library9
subcommands9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SvenGroot/Ookii.Common
Oct 2024 - Jul 2026
A library with common functionality for Ookii.org projects.
Contributions:2 releases, 5 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 9 months
SvenGroot/Ookii.FormatC
Oct 2019 - Sep 2022
FormatC is a class library for Microsoft .Net that provides syntax highlighting for several programming languages.
Contributions:3 releases, 24 commits, 41 PRs in 2 years 11 months
class-librarydotnetprogramming-languagesyntax-highlighting
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