Hans Norheim is a hands-on software engineer at Databricks with roughly a decade of deep experience building and scaling database engines and distributed infrastructure, notably across Azure SQL Database and SQL Server. He has led teams at Microsoft to deliver high-availability features, hot-patching, and massive deployment systems that support millions of servers and multi-petabyte test infrastructures. Comfortable bridging low-level engine work (T-SQL execution, plan cache, columnstore analytics) with cloud control plane and deployment orchestration, he excels at performance optimization and platform integration. Hans combines engineering leadership with individual contributor rigor—he has driven algorithmic improvements (e.g., scheduler from O(N) to O(log N)) and built cross-platform virtual file systems to accelerate testing at scale. Based in Redmond, he brings a practical mix of systems-level craftsmanship and production-grade orchestration experience that few engineers balance end-to-end.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Math, Physics, Chemistry, Math, Physics, Chemistry at Frederik II High School
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