Affan Dar
Vice President Of Engineering at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAffan Dar is a senior engineering leader and Vice President of Engineering with 25+ years building distributed systems, cloud-scale services, databases and application platforms. He currently leads engineering for PostgreSQL and MySQL at Microsoft, delivering Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Azure Database for MySQL, and previously ran database infrastructure at Facebook for the social graph. He built and scaled Microsoft’s Azure IoT Platform from scratch to a 180+ engineer organization, shipping key services like IoT Hub, IoT Edge and Digital Twins, and led an RTOS acquisition and onboarding. His early career focused on high-scale messaging, pub/sub and workflow engines, and he remains hands-on in backend and DevOps work—evidenced by contributions to the Durable Task Framework on GitHub. Based in Redmond and holding a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Washington, he combines operational rigor with product-driven engineering at cloud scale. Colleagues describe him as a builder who repeatedly turns complex, mission-critical systems into reliable managed services.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Washington
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Github Skills (10)
azure-storage10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
netframework10
servicebus9
versioning9
dependency-management9
build-automation8
azure-service-bus6
azure6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/durabletask
Oct 2014 - Jul 2017
Durable Task Framework allows users to write long running persistent workflows in C# using the async/await capabilities.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 releases, 49 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Affan primarily contributed to the core framework of the project by adding features and refactoring code. They introduced signing and versioning, and also refactored the dispatcher classes, indicating a focus on the project's internal architecture. The user further adjusted project dependencies, including downgrading storage dependencies, which aligns with infrastructure and build management activities, suggesting a blend of backend development and DevOps contributions. The user also updated the assembly versions across multiple commits.
asynccsharp
affandar/PilotSwarm
Mar 2026 - Jul 2026
Durable execution runtime for GitHub Copilot SDK agents
Contributions:5 releases, 2 reviews, 4 PRs in 4 months
copilotgithub-copilot
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