Perry Skountrianos is a Principal Program Manager leading Azure Data's SQL Platform control plane at Microsoft, bringing 11 years of experience driving SQL engine improvements for both SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. He blends product leadership with hands-on engineering, contributing to flagship Microsoft OSS projects such as the microsoft/sql-server-samples and mssql-docker repos where he’s improved UI workflows and hardened containerized SQL deployments. Based in Redmond, he leads PM teams that translate deep database internals into reliable, production-ready platform features and tooling. Known for pairing practical scripting and configuration fixes with UI refinements, he’s comfortable moving between PowerShell, C#, and SQL to unblock customers and ship stable releases.
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:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 144 commits in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Perry's contributions primarily revolve around modifications to the UI of the ticket reservation and demo workload applications. The commits demonstrate changes to form designs, UI controls, and the integration with configurations within these C# applications. They also performed some refactoring and renaming of project files. This indicates a focus on the user interface aspects and some backend configuration.
Official Microsoft repository for SQL Server in Docker resources
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Contributions:26 commits, 8 PRs, 22 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Perry primarily focused on modifying PowerShell scripts related to the installation and configuration of SQL Server within Docker containers. They updated the scripts to include support for SQL Server Developer Edition and Azure page blobs for database file storage. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to attaching databases, correcting syntax, and enhancing the overall functionality and stability of the SQL Server container environment. Several changes involved database attachment and credential management using SQL commands.
docker-resourcessql-serverwindowssqldocker-engine
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Perry Skountrianos - Principal PM Manager, Azure Data