Summary
Michael Entin is a Staff Software Engineer with nearly three decades of engineering experience and nine years focused on large-scale data systems, currently leading BigQuery Geospatial at Google. He specializes in distributed, multithreaded, high-performance data processing and storage, with deep C++ and C#/.NET expertise applied to petascale GIS, query planning, shuffle, and dynamic partitioning. His background includes architecting Azure Analysis Services, large ETL/ML platforms, and core SQL Server BI components at Microsoft, giving him rare end-to-end experience from tooling and IDE integration to backend distributed execution. Based in Redmond, he pairs hands-on systems design with technical leadership, and his work on GEOGRAPHY types and spatial indexing helped bring geospatial capabilities to petascale analytics. While primarily focused on infrastructure, he has a consistent track record of bootstrapping new products and shipping foundational platform features that enable broad partner and customer adoption.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Physics and Engineering, FOPF, M.S., Physics and Engineering, FOPF at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
English, Russian