Saurabh Singh
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Sammamish, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSaurabh Singh is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-impact, data-centric systems and cloud integrations, currently contributing to SQL Server connectivity as a Microsoft maintainer for the dotnet/SqlClient driver. He has led cross-functional teams to design secure, extensible key-management and data-at-rest encryption for SQL Server Big Data Clusters and driven S3-backed object storage integrations for SQL Server. Before returning to Microsoft, he built scalable analytics and data ingestion platforms for ESG ratings at MSCI using Spark on Azure Databricks, and earlier worked on performance-sensitive systems at Amazon and IBM. Known for deep protocol and systems expertise, he has influenced widely deployed components—if you use SQL Server there's a high chance his code touched your app. He combines a practical security mindset with hands-on engineering across cloud, containers, and distributed storage, and often designs for extensibility to meet diverse compliance and customer root-of-trust requirements.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Naval Public SchoolBachelors of Engineering Computer, Bachelors of Engineering Computer at Savitribai Phule Pune UniversityHIgher Secondary Science, HIgher Secondary Science at Kendriya Vidyalaya No 2Primary School General, Primary School General at Army Public School Meerut
Hindi, English
Github Skills (124)
connectivity10
cosmosdb10
entity-framework10
dotnet10
linux10
azure-sql-database10
azure-data-studio10
sql10
azure10
mapper10
database10
sqlite10
mysql10
foundation10
coreclr10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
saurabh500/runtime
Feb 2020 - Jul 2024
.NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, IoT, and desktop apps.
Contributions:18 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years 5 months
dotnetiot-cloudlinuxruntimedesktop-apps
saurabh500/SqlClient
May 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:6 PRs, 211 pushes, 53 branches in 5 months
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