Pino De Candia
Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPino De Candia is a seasoned software engineering manager with 11+ years building and leading teams that deliver distributed databases and cloud infrastructure, currently focused on making PostgreSQL a top vector and AI/GenAI platform at Microsoft. He brings deep operational and architectural experience from roles spanning Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, the open-source Citus extension, and earlier leadership as VP/CTO at Midokura. Pino has a strong systems background—authoring OpenStack Tatu for secure SSH/bastion management and evangelizing SDN work—combining hands-on engineering with strategic product direction. Comfortable scaling global teams and shipping production-grade systems, he pairs rigorous academic training from Cornell with practical experience across Amazon, Huawei, and startups. An under-the-radar strength is his track record of translating research insights into deployable systems, such as contributions tied to Dynamo-era storage research and advanced networking prototypes.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. International Trade Finance and Economic Development, M.Sc. International Trade Finance and Economic Development at Barcelona Graduate School of EconomicsM.Eng. Computer Science, M.Eng. Computer Science at Cornell University
Github Skills (4)
continuous-integration6
opendev5
cicd4
devops4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/tatu
Oct 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:45 commits in 4 months
openstack/tatu-dashboard
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:11 commits in 2 months
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