Brian Carrig
Principal Database Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Carrig is a Principal Database Engineer with nearly two decades of experience designing database internals and high-scale data platforms, including feature ownership on the SQL Server Enterprise team at Microsoft. He has built systems that handle millions of transactions per second, led operations for HIPAA/FedRAMP/SOX-compliant services at Citrix, and architected polyglot platforms and multi-master conflict resolution shipped in SQL Server 2022. Brian combines deep hardware-level optimization—collaborating with Intel, AMD, Micron and Samsung—with cloud service design work alongside AWS and GCP teams, and he holds a Microsoft Certified Master in SQL Server and a PhD in Computer Networking. More recently he has pivoted into AI/ML infrastructure, building LLM inference and RAG pipelines on NVIDIA DGX for neuroscience research, bringing a rare mix of low-level database internals, systems performance tuning, and applied ML infrastructure to complex, global deployments.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Networking, PhD, Computer Networking at Institute of Technology CarlowBachelor of Science, Computer Networking, Bachelor of Science, Computer Networking at Institute of Technology, Carlow
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Github Skills (12)
microsoft-sql-server10
sql-server10
data-tools10
ssms10
sql10
microsoft10
mssql10
tsql10
microsoft-sql10
oracle1
postgresql1
mysql1
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Github contributions (4)
briancarrig/sql-docs
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
Technical documentation for Microsoft SQL Server, tools such as SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) , SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) etc.
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 6 branches in 2 months
data-servertechnical-documentationsqlserversql-serversql-server-management-studio
briancarrig/briancarrig.github.io
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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