Summary
Madeline Macdonald is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft with nine years of experience building secure, cross-platform data systems, currently focused on Azure Arc Enabled SQL Servers and hybrid data platforms. She blends deep SQL Server security expertise—non-root containers, AD management on Linux, and encryption tooling—with practical cloud-native experience running SQL in Docker and Kubernetes. Her background includes research in ML-driven database tuning and contributions to Azure Data Studio, demonstrating a mix of systems, security, and usability interests. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, she pairs a BS in Computer Science from the University of Utah with hands-on work across distributed systems and developer tools, often surfacing pragmatic solutions that improve both manageability and customer experience.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
Computer Science, Computer Science at Brigham Young University