Rameez Sajwani
Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRameez Sajwani is a software engineering manager and systems engineer with 7+ years of focused experience building high-scale, resilient storage and database infrastructure across Microsoft Azure Storage, AWS S3, Meta, and PlanetScale. He combines deep hands-on expertise in distributed storage, replication, consistency models and low-latency data paths with a product-minded approach to multitenant scalability and reliability. As a contributor to Vitess—the open-source MySQL clustering system used by YouTube and GitHub—he’s delivered backend improvements, new APIs and security hardening for large-scale database orchestration. His career blends leadership and individual contributor roles, from designing S3 billing and partition-rescue systems to leading Azure PostgreSQL efforts, reflecting both operational rigor and systems-level creativity. Based in Kirkland, WA, he also brings entrepreneurial experience as a former CTO, giving him a pragmatic view of building production-ready platforms under resource and business constraints.
7 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at SZabistBCS computer science, BCS computer science at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
Github Skills (4)
go10
testing9
grpc9
database-administration8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
vitessio/vitess
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:2 releases, 352 reviews, 68 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Rameez primarily worked on backend improvements within the Vitess database clustering system, specifically on the vtctldserver component, related to migrating RPCs. They also implemented new functionalities and tests to verify proper access for the database. Furthermore, the user enhanced the codebase by introducing new features, such as the aggregation API. The user also made changes to the database to make it more secure.
mysqltidbhorizontal-scalingsqlvitess
rsajwani/service-fabric-rs
Dec 2023 - Feb 2024
Service Fabric Rust
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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