Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolSameer Tejani is an engineering manager with over 25 years of deep systems experience building and re-architecting high-scale platforms at Microsoft and Confluent. He has driven core work across SQL Server internals, SQLOS, Windows platform services (including Project Rome), and most recently the control plane for Azure by re-architecting Azure Resource Manager to handle billions of requests a day. Known for blending OS- and database-level expertise, he specializes in distributed systems, security, and application platform reliability. At Confluent he now applies that experience to Kafka's metadata layer, bringing control-plane rigor to streaming infrastructure. Beyond delivery, he has authored key diagnostics work and helped ship security features like TDE and SQL Audit, reflecting a career that spans design, shipping, and certification. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he pairs hands-on technical leadership with a knack for making complex low-level systems operable at cloud scale.
3 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at The City College of New York
MS, MS at University of Pennsylvania