Danìel Coelho is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft with 25+ years in IT and data architecture and over a decade focused on Data & AI program management, currently driving Delta Lake and Big Data table-format capabilities for Microsoft Fabric and Azure Synapse. He blends deep hands-on experience with Spark, SQL Server, Apache Spark-based Big Data Clusters and cloud data platforms—having implemented secure key-provider integrations for SQL Server Big Data Cluster samples used by the community. Danìel’s background spans database internals, large-scale data pipelines, and production ML/AI adoption across enterprises and partners, with prior roles building Redshift pipelines and multi-cloud BI platforms. Based in Auburn, WA, he pairs an engineer’s curiosity (self-described Big Data, ML and AI geek) with pragmatic product leadership that helps analysts, engineers and data scientists turn messy data into actionable systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Geology/Oceanography, Bachelor, Geology/Oceanography at Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Master's Degree, Big Data, Big Data, Data Science, Machine Learning, Master's Degree, Big Data, Big Data, Data Science, Machine Learning at Instituto Infnet
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
Contributions:13 commits, 10 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Danìel's contributions focused on integrating external key providers for encryption within the SQL Server Big Data Cluster environment. They implemented custom modules for interacting with different key stores, including local file-based storage, a Vault instance and Azure Key Vault. The changes involved modifying existing applications and integrating with cryptographic libraries like PyCryptodome and Azure SDKs for key management and encryption/decryption operations. Their work aimed at enhancing the security of data encryption.
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Danìel Coelho - Principal Program Manager at Microsoft