Livar Cunha

Director of Engineering

Seattle, Washington, United States19 yrs 2 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led a team to ship .NET Core SDK improvements.
Expert in cross-platform product development.
Strong background in customer feedback integration.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Software Development expert with a focus on cloud computing and backend technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

.net CoreSoftware DevelopmentProject ManagementApi DevelopmentWeb Development

Other Skills

MSBuildTeam ManagementCLI ExtensionsPower BICustomer Feedback AnalysisProject TrackingASP.NET Web APIREST API DevelopmentAPI ManagementASP.NET MVCBackend DevelopmentFrontend DevelopmentSilverlightReporting ServicesC#

About

Engineering Manager at Airbnb on the Payments team. I love working on open source and cross-platform products. As well as continuously shipping and having a tight feedback loop with our customers. At my last position at Microsoft, I have shipped the .NET Core SDK since 1.0 and have transitioned from being a Developer on the team to becoming the team manager. Led a 8 person team to ship numerous versions of .NET Core with many improvements to the product.

Experience

19 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

6 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Airbnb

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

Engineering Manager

Jan 2020 – Mar 2023 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Microsoft

7 roles

Principal Engineering Manager

Promoted

Mar 2017 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos · United States

.NET Core SDK and MSBuild – Dev Tooling
Managed the .NET Core SDK team.
Later on also took over MSBuild.

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · United States

.NET Core SDK – Dev Tooling
Worked on the migration verb from project.json to csproj. Also worked on CLI extensions and the test verb.
Helped the .NET Core SDK transition from project.json itself to MSBuild.
Shipped .NET Core SDK 1.0 and 1.1

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2014 – Oct 2015 · 1 yr · United States

Microsoft PowerBI – Backend
Owned the content providers space in Power BI. Responded to customer feedback, analyzed live
data and drove improvements to reliability and experience in the space.
Drove the costing and design to implement the organizational apps backend. Implemented many
critical pieces of the code and handled project tracking.

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2013 – Oct 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos · United States

Microsoft Commerce – Backend
Implemented and owned the Subscriptions APIs used by Azure and Office 365. Built a new REST API for subscriptions using ASP.NET Web API for Azure.
Drove, evangelized and implemented the Migration approach to move Azure accounts from their old system into a new system being used by Office 365.

Software Design Engineer 2

Mar 2012 – Jul 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos · United States

Microsoft Azure DataMarket – Backend/Frontend
Worked on a start-up like project building an On-prem version of the Azure DataMarket service using ASP.NET MVC.

Software Design Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2010 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr 5 mos · United States

Microsoft SQL Azure and Reporting Service Azure – Frontend
Implemented the V1 version of the Reporting Services Azure page in the Azure portal using Silverlight. Contributed many features to the SQL Azure portal.

Software Design Engineer in Test

Jun 2008 – Oct 2010 · 2 yrs 4 mos · United States

Microsoft Communicator/Lync
Was responsible for the quality of the Multi-Media Application Sharing and Sign-in, Authentication and Branch Office Resiliency

Qualiti software processes

Test Engineering Manager and Software Automation Engineer

Feb 2007 – Jun 2008 · 1 yr 4 mos · São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Managed a QA team working across various clients, like Leroy Merlin and Bematech and Software Automation Engineer consultant at Accenture working on TIM Mobile projects.