Pieter Vanhove
Senior Program Manager Security & Governance Azure Database Platform
Ghent Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Top SchoolPieter Vanhove is a Senior Program Manager leading Security & Governance for the Azure Database Platform at Microsoft, combining two decades of SQL Server expertise with a focus on ledger and Always Encrypted features that bring blockchain-grade integrity and strong encryption to relational data. He has progressed through technical and customer-facing roles—from SQL Server field engineering and solution architecture to FastTrack and program management—giving him rare end-to-end insight into deployment, security, and productization. Pieter regularly speaks at Belgian and international events and contributes to Microsoft's sql-server-samples on GitHub, where his work on Always Encrypted, key vaults, and ledger demo automation reflects hands-on experience with Azure deployments and security configurations. Based in Ghent, he pairs deep practical knowledge of HA/DR and database internals with a passion for emerging cloud-native Azure capabilities.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Informatics, Informatics at HOGENT
Dutch, English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
bicep10
tsql10
azure-sql-database10
azure-sql10
sql10
stored-procedures9
schema-design9
db-schema9
database-schema9
schema9
database-design9
powershell9
azure-keyvault8
web-deployment7
web-deploy7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/sql-server-samples
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
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:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:7 reviews, 56 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Pieter primarily contributed to the implementation of database-related features and configurations within the repository, focusing on security aspects like Always Encrypted. Their work involved modifying database schemas, creating and updating stored procedures, and configuring ledger digest uploads. The commits also demonstrate expertise in setting up and configuring Azure SQL databases, key vaults, and web applications, alongside relevant PowerShell scripting for demo environments.
azure-synapsesqlserversql-serversqledge
Pietervanhove/sql-server-samples
Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
Azure Data SQL Samples - Official Microsoft GitHub Repository containing code samples for SQL Server, Azure SQL, Azure Synapse, and Azure SQL Edge
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
azure-synapsesqlserversql-serversqledge
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