Xavier Llorà
Principal Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolXavier Llorà is a Principal Engineer with 16 years of experience, currently based in New York and leading efforts to combat spam and abuse across Google’s platforms. He blends deep academic roots—a PhD in computer science and postdoctoral research in evolutionary computation—with pragmatic engineering at scale, having transitioned from research roles at UIUC and NCSA into production systems at Google. His work spans machine learning, semantic-web technologies, and data-intensive algorithms, and he contributes to open-source tooling for temporal graph data, adding literal formats, reification, and time-bounded predicate support to notable projects. Known for restructuring complex codebases and turning research insights into robust backend implementations, he brings a rare mix of research rigor and production-focused problem solving.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer science, Ph.D. Computer science at Universitat Ramon Llull
Github Skills (4)
go10
data-structure9
software-design9
data-structures9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
google/badwolf
Jul 2015 - Apr 2021
Temporal graph store abstraction layer.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 2 reviews, 483 commits in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Xavier primarily focused on restructuring the folder and package structure within the project. They implemented the initial version of a new literal format and added code for parsing pretty printed nodes and literals. The user also contributed to the predicate and triple functionality by adding a new component to the triple, and added code to support reification and time bounded predicates, which expanded the project's capabilities.
graph-storetemporalgraphabstraction-layerabstraction
xllora/Crochet
Jan 2010 - Nov 2010
Contributions:26 commits in 10 months
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