# Vincenzo Marcella > Software Engineer II at Microsoft Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/vincenzo Software Engineer with a deep passion for learning and solving problems with code. With a primary focus of system architecture and data science, I love finding opportunities that provide the ability to work on and solve problems that integrate both. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer II @ Microsoft Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Software Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States Software Engineer for Azure Linux with a focus on provisioning & virtualization. As a provisioning engineer for the Azure Linux team, my responsibilities include: - Building, maintaining & optimizing the provisioning components responsible for deploying millions of various Linux distributions to Azure per day. - Contributing upstream to open source projects related to provisioning operating systems & virtualization, I.E. cloud-init. - Working across multiple different teams all throughout Azure to quantifiably measure the key areas of our platform that can be immediately improved & acted upon for providing better experiences to our 1st and 3rd party customers. - Creating effective strategies & tooling for collecting, analyzing, and storing data about our platform components to maximize the signal of the metrics we use for making business decisions. - Constantly learning about & working with all of the components that piece together Azure's complex virtualization & virtual machine tech stack. And much more to come as I continue to find ways to help improve the Linux E2E experience for Azure. ### Software Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Software Engineer for the Azure Portal team. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Software engineer Intern for the Azure Linux team primarily concerned with improving Serial Console and the other Linux based experiences on Azure. While working at Microsoft, I primarily worked on: - Improving and standardizing the Frontend and Backend container build processes for multiple different services. I was able to reduce the overall container build size by 40% in multiple production deployed services, saving storage space and build time. - Designing, developing, and deploying two HTTP/socket based services in Typescript that were highly requested from Azure customers. - Updating an internal C++ framework to expose Typescript bindings for the services that I implemented. This enabled the services that I implemented in Typescript a highly performant C++ library to offload computationally expensive operations that would not be nearly as fast had they been implemented directly in Typescript. - Pushing the boundaries of the Web Worker API and sharing data across contexts to stream massive amounts of data between a server and client. This resulted in the client application becoming on average 4x more responsive and freed the browsers main thread to solely focus on UI/UX related work. - Communicating across multiple teams and stakeholders in the project(s) I was given to set schedules, deadlines, and a general momentum for the project to ensure that it would be highly successful. - Writing extensive amounts of documentation both in and out of the code base to allow whatever future teams/engineers that worked on my project to evaluate what I had done and where I had planned to take the project. ### Software Engineer @ Terrace Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York, United States Full time software engineer that primarily dealt with development and deployment of both server side infrastructure and Microservices. While working for Terrace, I: - Implemented and deployed multiple gRPC based microservices with C++, cURL, couch-db, docker, Kubernetes, and the google cloud service. - Configured terraform to safely construct and destruct resources by enforcing the terraform state to be stored and checked remotely. - Setup and automated the deployment of Istio with TLS ingress gateways into all development and production clusters to better manage the communication and security of our microservices within them. - Configured and deployed both Prometheus and Grafana to collect data on cluster communication, responses, microservice resource usage, and plenty of other information so that if our any of services started to fail, we'd be notified. - Wrote and scoped out some of the initial project specifications to be reviewed and polished by my mentor before officially starting the project. ### Data Science Teaching Assistant @ Make School Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Primarily assisted in the teaching of Data analysis, Machine learning, and AI courses at Makeschool. While serving as a teaching assistant, I: - Created and taught two lectures with accompanying projects to teach students how to build and deploy both machine learning and AI models into production. - Assisted 100+ students with understanding advanced data science topics, solving problems within their classwork and projects, and overall just helping the students advance their career as a potential data scientist. - Analyzed, graded, and provided feedback on student classwork and projects to help students better perform in their classes and personal projects. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Bolar, LLC Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Served as a Software Engineer that primarily dealt with developing and deploying the backend architecture. On the job, I: - Wrote and deployed multiple API endpoints via Firebase Functions. - Managed the storage and retrieval of all data via the Firebase Firestore with custom rules, data validation, and redundancy checks. - Integrated numerous APIs that were required for the platform. (Stripe, Firebase, Estated, etc.) - Collaborated with the iOS, Android, and Web team on the development and deployment of all server side functionality in sprints to strategically integrate our service into the all Front end platforms. - Integrated git hooks to perform tests either locally or in CI, lint, and document all of our code per commit to ensure that every piece of code was quality and documented. - Performed basic data analysis on the cost of our API usage to determine how our costs would scale with API pricing as a function of user count/interactivity. ### Self Employed @ cenzio Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Harrison, New York I Handle the design, implementation, and deployment for both open and closed source libraries, services, and apps to help solve problems for public and business needs. ### Assistant Warehouse Manager @ WHH Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Harrison, New York Assist in the management and logistics of efficiently storing and retrieving furniture within a warehouse for both short and long periods of time. ### Assistant Project Manager @ TopRock Interiors, Inc Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area Assisted in the management of employees, invoices, and materials of both small and large scale construction projects throughout the greater NYC area. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science Make School Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 ### Advanced regents diploma Carmel High School Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vincenzo-marcella --- Source: https://flows.cv/vincenzo JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/vincenzo/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22