Svetlana Kofman
Principal Group Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSvetlana Kofman is a Principal Group Engineering Manager at Microsoft with over a decade of experience leading the NuGet team and shaping package management for the .NET ecosystem. She blends hands-on backend engineering—contributing to the NuGet Gallery and improving search, API endpoints, package locking, and performance—with people leadership focused on inclusive, growth-oriented team cultures and career mentorship. Her background spans cloud and deployment engineering for Application Insights and Azure services, giving her a strong systems-and-operations perspective on large-scale service reliability. An avid open-source advocate, she pairs developer empathy with pragmatic engineering to move features from design to production. Outside work she’s an avid hiker, scrambler and rock climber, which mirrors her appetite for tackling challenging technical problems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc Computer Science, M.Sc Computer Science at Tel Aviv University
Github Skills (12)
csharp10
odata10
dotnet-core10
netframework10
apidoc9
api9
entity-framework8
indexer7
asp-net-core7
indexing7
asp-net7
nuget7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
NuGet/NuGetGallery
Feb 2016 - Apr 2021
NuGet Gallery is a package repository that powers https://www.nuget.org. Use this repo for reporting NuGet.org issues.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 83 reviews, 137 commits in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Svetlana contributed to the NuGet Gallery's back-end codebase, with a focus on enhancing search functionality and API endpoints. Their work included propagating correlation IDs to the search service, improving the handling of OData requests, and implementing features like package locking. The user's commits also involved database index creation for increased performance and the addition of code to support API Key V3.
dotnetreportingnuget-gallerypowerscsharp
NuGet/NuGet.Staging
Feb 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:135 commits, 36 PRs, 74 pushes in 7 months
dotnetcsharpstagingnugetdotnet-core
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