Summary
Nikolas Ogg is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building and evolving SQL database systems at Microsoft, currently focused on Azure SQL DB. He progressed through multiple engineering roles on SQL Server and has a strong foundation in systems and platform work dating back to internships that produced tooling for crash analysis and cross-platform ABIs. A Purdue CS graduate (MS) with a mathematics minor, he pairs deep systems knowledge with teaching experience as a graduate TA for operating systems. Known for pragmatic tooling that bridges platform-specific and platform-agnostic components, he brings production-hardened judgment to large-scale database reliability and interoperability challenges. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he combines academic rigor with a track record of shipping infrastructure-level improvements in enterprise database products.
12 years of coding experience