Mihaela Blendea
Principal Program Manager at Microsoft
Sammamish, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMihaela Blendea is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft with 11 years of experience guiding cloud and data engineering initiatives from deployment scripting to program-level delivery. She progressed through engineering and program management roles at Microsoft, blending hands-on DevOps expertise with cross-team leadership to ship complex Azure SQL and Big Data solutions. Her open-source contributions include practical enhancements to Microsoft’s official sql-server-samples repo, updating AKS deployment scripts and tooling for private image repositories and new CTP releases. Based in Sammamish, Washington, she pairs a technical foundation in management information systems with a knack for translating operational needs into repeatable, automated deployments. Colleagues rely on her to bridge engineering, product, and cloud ops while keeping large-scale rollouts predictable and secure. An understated strength is her ability to modernize legacy deployment workflows without interrupting production services.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor of Science (BS), Management Information Systems, General at A. I. Cuza University - Iasi, Romania
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Github Skills (19)
kubernetes10
azure-cli10
azure-aks10
azure-kubernetes-service10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
python9
docker9
bash8
cicd7
powershell6
azure6
sql-server6
azure-powershell6
ado-net6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/sql-server-samples
May 2017 - Mar 2021
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:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 90 commits, 23 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Mihaela primarily focused on modifying deployment scripts and configurations for SQL Big Data clusters deployed on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). They updated the `deploy-sql-big-data-aks.py` script to modify VM sizes, node counts, Kubernetes versions, and incorporate features for new CTP releases. Additionally, the user modified the `push-bdc-images-to-custom-private-repo.py` script, adapting it for use with specific image versions and private repositories. The commits also involved the modification and updates of shell scripts related to the setup, cleanup, and configuration of the big data cluster on a single node VM.
azure-synapsesqlserversql-serversqledge
mihaelablendea/sql-docs
Sep 2017 - Mar 2021
Technical documentation for Microsoft SQL Server, tools such as SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) , SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) etc.
Contributions:7 pushes in 3 years 6 months
data-servertechnical-documentationsqlserversql-serversql-server-management-studio
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