Summary
Sai Alapati is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with nine years of experience building high-performance database and distributed systems, currently focused on the Core SQL Operating System for Azure SQL and SQL Serverless. He holds a master's in computer science from University at Buffalo and has deep expertise in memory management, scheduling, caching, and resource governance for cloud and on-prem SQL platforms. Sai’s background includes research-level work in high-throughput DNSSEC servers and practical deployments around resource isolation and serverless storage provisioning. He brings a blend of systems-level design and hands-on performance optimization, having implemented precalculation and LRU-cache strategies to accelerate cryptographic signing in prior research. Based in Buffalo, NY, he is passionate about applying AI and systems thinking to database challenges and enjoys turning complex concurrency and security problems into robust, production-ready solutions.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University at Buffalo
Minor in Computer Science and Major in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Minor in Computer Science and Major in Electronics and Communication Engineering at Shiv Nadar University
English, Hindi, Telugu