Eddie Aftandilian
Head Of Platform Engineering
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEddie Aftandilian is a researcher and engineer who builds developer tools that automate away tedious, bug-prone minutiae so programmers can focus on hard problems. He holds a PhD from Tufts and spent nine years at Google leading Java tools and JVM teams that produced widely used projects like Error Prone, google-java-format, Desugar, and Turbine. Now a Principal Researcher at GitHub Next, he applies ML to code and contributes to GitHub Copilot while collaborating with OpenAI and Microsoft Research on underlying models. Based in Sunnyvale, he combines deep systems and language expertise with a track record of shipping production-ready developer infrastructure at scale. An understated but telling thread through his career is a focus on practical, reproducible tooling that improves everyday developer productivity.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at Harvard UniversityPh.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Tufts University
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Github Skills (67)
compile-time10
python10
codex10
gh-extension10
copilot10
openai-api10
static-analysis10
scalable10
build-system10
github-copilot10
java10
bazel10
openai10
dotenv9
env9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
eaftan/eaftan.github.io
Apr 2015 - Mar 2021
Contributions:20 pushes in 5 years 11 months
jekyll-blogjekylljekyll-thememinutes
eaftan/safere
Apr 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:4 reviews, 79 PRs, 154 pushes in 3 months
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