Marcus Fontoura | |
|---|---|
| Born | Marcus Felipe Montenegro Carvalho da Fontoura Brazil |
| Nationality | Brazilian-American |
| Alma mater | Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro University of Waterloo |
| Known for | Cloud computing Distributed systems |
| Awards | Distinguished Member of the ACM (2013) Senior Member of the IEEE IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (2004) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Microsoft Yahoo! Research IBM Almaden Research Center Princeton University StoneCo |
Marcus Felipe Montenegro Carvalho da Fontoura, known as Marcus Fontoura, is a Brazilian-born American computer scientist and author known for his contributions to cloud computing and large-scale distributed systems. He is a distinguished member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). [1] He currently serves as a Technical Fellow at Microsoft, where he is the lead architect for Azure Core. [2] [3]
Fontoura earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) in 1999 through a joint program with the University of Waterloo, Canada. [4] His research focused on object-oriented design and software architecture, culminating in the publication of the book The UML Profile for Framework Architectures (Addison-Wesley, 2001). [5] He also holds an M.Sc. in computer science and a degree in computer engineering, both from PUC-Rio. [6] [7]
Fontoura served as a post-doctoral researcher at Princeton University from 1999 to 2000 and taught graduate courses on web information retrieval at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). [8]
Fontoura was a Research Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Center from 2000 to 2005. At IBM, he co-developed a query processor for XPath queries, which became a cornerstone of the XML data type implementation in IBM DB2. [9] He also contributed to the development of IBM OmniFind Enterprise Search, for which he was awarded the IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award. [10] [11]
From 2005 to 2010, Fontoura worked at Yahoo! Research as a principal research scientist. He played a key role in developing a large-scale platform for indexing and content serving, which became integral to Yahoo!’s display and textual advertising systems. His contributions to computational advertising and the efficiency of ad-serving systems earned him recognition as a Yahoo! "Superstar" and the recipient of two "You Rock!" awards. [12]
Before his work at Microsoft and Stone, Fontoura was a staff research scientist at Google from 2011 to 2013. At Google, he contributed to the Search Infrastructure team, where he worked on the systems that power Google.com search. [13]
Between 2022 and 2025, Fontoura served as the chief technology officer at Stone, a financial technology company. [14]
Fontoura first joined Microsoft in 2013, initially contributing to Bing’s production infrastructure and Bing Ads projects. [15] He later advanced to become a corporate vice president and Technical Fellow, leading the Azure efficiency team and serving as the chief architect for Azure Compute. [16] His projects include container allocation, power management, and the development of machine learning infrastructure for resource management. [17]
In April 2024, Fontoura delivered a master class on "Engineering Principles and Culture" at the School of Applied Mathematics of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV EMAp) in Rio de Janeiro, sharing insights from his extensive experience in the technology sector. [18]
Fontoura has authored a book titled A Platform Mindset, which provides practical insights into technology management. [19] [20] [21]
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