Sameer Awasekar
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolSameer Awasekar is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft in Bengaluru with a decade-plus background focused on distributed storage technologies and database systems, including work on CosmosDB. He progressed through engineering roles at Microsoft after earlier development positions at SAP Labs, blending hands-on system design with delivery ownership across service-scale projects. An IIT Kharagpur computer science master's graduate, he brings deep domain expertise in storage, replication, and scalability that informs both architecture and implementation choices. Known for moving from individual contributor work to technical leadership, he helps teams navigate complex distributed-data problems while keeping production reliability front and center. A pragmatic problem-solver, he pairs academic rigor with practical product experience to optimize performance and operational simplicity in large cloud services.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
SJHSComputer Science Engineering, Computer Science Engineering at Solapur University, SolapurMaster's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Github Skills (11)
graphdb10
citus10
scale10
database-cluster10
postgresql10
distributed-database10
sql10
sharding10
multi-tenant10
database10
partial7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
AzureCosmosDB/PatchPrivatePreviewFeedbackGroup
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
This group will share the private preview documentation, issues for the partial update feature.
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 2 months
updatepartialshare
citusdata/citus
May 2022 - Sep 2022
Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension
Contributions:88 reviews, 88 commits, 7 PRs in 4 months
distributedrelational-databasesqlcitusscale
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