Jos Hamilton
Full Stack Developer at Freelance
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJos Hamilton is a Full Stack Developer with a decade of hands-on experience building web applications and optimizing data-driven systems. With a background in programming languages research at Microsoft and a master's in Computer and Information Sciences from Michigan State University, he combines academic rigor with practical engineering. As a long-time freelance developer he spans front-end and back-end concerns while specializing in database engineering and performance tuning. His open-source contributions to high-profile Microsoft repositories (Azure SQL Database Samples and SQL Server Samples) show deep expertise in T-SQL, in-memory OLTP, clustered columnstore indexes, and schema/performance optimizations for Azure SQL. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex database requirements into efficient schemas and scripts that scale in cloud environments. He brings a quiet blend of research-led thinking and production-ready pragmatism that surfaces in both code and architecture.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES AND SUPPORT SERVICES, Master's degree, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES AND SUPPORT SERVICES at Michigan State University
Github Skills (7)
database-tuning10
sql-server10
azure-sql-database10
database-design10
azure-sql10
tsql10
database-optimization10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/sql-server-samples
Mar 2016 - May 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:5 releases, 337 commits, 88 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jos's commits reflect modifications to stored procedures and tables, suggesting database schema modifications and performance optimizations. Changes included adding support for memory-optimized tables, altering procedures for increased performance, and cleaning up unused data source references. The user also made corrections to T-SQL syntax.
azure-synapsesqlserversql-serversqledge
Azure/azure-sql-database-samples
Oct 2015 - Dec 2015
Azure SQL Database Samples and Reference Implementation Repository
Role in this project:Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jos primarily contributes to database-related tasks within the Azure SQL Database Samples repository. Their work includes creating and modifying T-SQL scripts to set up in-memory OLTP samples, analytics samples, and demonstrating clustered columnstore index queries. They define table structures, indexes, and data population scripts, showcasing expertise in SQL Server and database optimization techniques for Azure SQL Database. Additionally, the user adjusts compatibility levels and hash index bucket counts, further refining the database environment.
sqlserverazure-functionssql-databasesqlazure-sql-database
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