Andrea Lam
Senior Program Manager, Minecraft at Mojang Studios
Bothell, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrea Lam is a Senior Program Manager with 11 years of experience building reliable, player-facing services and managed database offerings across Microsoft and Mojang Studios. She led launch and delivery efforts for Azure Database for MySQL/MariaDB and Flexible Server, and now drives Marketplace and franchise services for Minecraft, blending product strategy with deep technical understanding of cloud databases. Hands-on contributions to Microsoft’s official SQL and Azure CLI samples show she pairs program management with practical engineering chops in Java, C#, Python, and scripting for cloud DB automation. Based in Bothell, WA, she excels at bridging developer experience, open-source collaboration, and production reliability—an unusual mix that lets her translate low-level DB integrations into high-impact consumer services.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Honours Management Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Honours Management Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (29)
database-api10
postgresql10
cloud-computing10
python10
mysql10
mariadb10
databases10
azure-sql-database10
database-administration10
jdbc10
azure-sql10
java10
azure-cli10
ruby10
javas10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-sql-database-samples
Sep 2015 - Oct 2016
Azure SQL Database Samples and Reference Implementation Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:120 commits, 5 PRs, 131 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Andrea contributed to the Azure SQL Database samples, primarily by providing code examples showcasing database interactions using various programming languages like Ruby, Python, and Java. Their work included writing SQL queries for both SELECT and INSERT operations. The contributions demonstrate the use of database drivers and libraries to connect to Azure SQL Database. The user also made changes to example code to show how to use the specific SQL database settings.
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microsoft/sql-server-samples
Oct 2016 - Oct 2017
Azure Data SQL Samples - Official Microsoft GitHub Repository containing code samples for SQL Server, Azure SQL, Azure Synapse, and Azure SQL Edge
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 5 PRs, 28 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Andrea contributed new Java and C# samples that demonstrate CRUD operations and database interactions using the Hibernate framework. The commits involve code modifications including the addition of dependencies, database schema creation, and implementation of data access logic. These samples also include configuration for database connections and demonstrate association and delete operations.
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