Talia Mccormick
Software Engineer at Amazon
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTalia Mccormick is a software engineer with a decade of experience building scalable systems across major tech companies, currently contributing at Amazon from Redmond. She has deep practical knowledge in full-stack and systems work, with past roles at Microsoft, FOSSA, Facebook, IBM, and startups where she shipped data pipelines, real-time metadata visualization, and JVM-level enhancements. Her background spans languages and tools from TypeScript, React Native, and GraphQL to C/C++ JVM internals, Kubernetes, and large-scale data indexing—demonstrating comfort from low-level performance work to customer-facing UX. At FOSSA she enabled enterprise workflows for massive monorepos and handled over 27TB of metadata, showing an ability to translate complex data needs into actionable tooling. Talia’s early coop and intern experience shaped a pragmatic approach to automation and incident triage, and she brings both production-hardened engineering and a habit of measurable impact to teams.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Honours, Coop, Bachelor of Computer Science, Honours, Coop at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (57)
nuget10
garbage-collector10
jvm10
analyzer10
virtual-machine10
interpreter10
java10
netstandard10
openjdk10
mef10
throughput10
footprint10
omr10
eclipse10
jit10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
taliamccormick/openj9
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
Eclipse OpenJ9: A Java Virtual Machine for OpenJDK that's optimized for small footprint, fast start-up, and high throughput. Builds on Eclipse OMR (https://github.com/eclipse/omr) and combines with the Extensions for OpenJDK for OpenJ9 repo.
Contributions:210 pushes, 36 branches in 3 months
runtimeextensionseclipseomrvirtual-machine
taliamccormick/website
Feb 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
wicsuwaterlooruns
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