Barbara Kess
Principal Content Manager at Microsoft
Sedona, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolBarbara Kess is a Principal Content Manager at Microsoft with 11 years of focused experience building developer and DevOps enablement content for Azure. She leads teams producing documentation and tutorials across languages and tools—Python, JavaScript, Java, CLI, and PowerShell—while shaping the developer experience for cloud data and services. Her background includes deep technical content leadership for SQL and data warehousing (including Parallel Data Warehouse and Azure SQL Data Warehouse) and hands-on database engineering contributions to high-profile Microsoft repos like the Azure SQL samples. Earlier in her career she established company-wide debugging file processes for Windows, demonstrating a knack for operationalizing complex engineering workflows. Based in Sedona, Arizona, she combines Ph.D.-level computer science expertise with practical publishing and program management skills to translate advanced platform capabilities into usable guidance. Colleagues rely on her to turn intricate cloud and data scenarios into clear, actionable content that helps teams ship reliably.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Github Skills (6)
sql10
database-design10
data-warehouse10
datamart10
schema-design9
azure-sql8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/sql-server-samples
Mar 2016 - Mar 2018
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:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:19 releases, 115 commits, 94 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Barbara's contributions focused on database-related tasks within the repository. The commits involve the creation and modification of SQL scripts for installing and configuring databases, specifically targeting AdventureWorks and Contoso data warehouses. The user's work includes defining database schemas, creating external tables, and loading data, demonstrating expertise in database setup and data warehousing. The changes made include alterations to existing SQL scripts.
azureazure-sqlazure-sql-edgeazure-synapsesql
barbkess/sql-server-samples
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:1 release, 3 commits, 49 pushes in 10 days
sqlsql-servermicrosoft
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