Kendal Van Dyke
Senior Program Manager at Microsoft
Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKendal Van Dyke is a Senior Program Manager and SQL Server strategist with over two decades of hands-on experience helping organizations protect, unlock, and optimize data value. At Microsoft he leads early adoption and readiness for the next SQL Server release, bridging product engineering, global ISVs, and the partner ecosystem through customer engagement, testing, and evangelism. A longtime community builder—founder and president of the Orlando MagicPass chapter and a former PASS board director—he pairs public speaking and blogging with practical expertise in disaster recovery, high availability, and performance tuning. Kendal’s career spans large-scale production environments and consulting engagements where he routinely delivered measurable cost savings, scalability improvements, and 24x7 operational reliability. He teaches and mentors technical leaders and remains active running a SQL Server–focused blog since 2008, bringing both deep technical craft and community-driven perspective to platform modernization efforts.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer and Information Sciences, Bachelor of Science, Computer and Information Sciences at Florida State University
Github Skills (33)
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smartthings9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kendalvandyke/sqlpowerdoc
Sep 2018 - Jul 2019
SQL Power Doc is a collection of Windows PowerShell scripts and modules that discover, document, and diagnose SQL Server instances and their underlying Windows OS & machine configurations.
Contributions:6 releases, 8 commits, 1 PR in 10 months
discoverinstanceswindows-serversql-serversqlserver
kendalvandyke/Demos
Apr 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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