Shanyu Zhao
Principal Engineering Manager, Azure SQL Server at Microsoft
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolShanyu Zhao is a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 12 years of experience modernizing database and big-data platforms for cloud-native applications. He leads development of Azure SQL Server’s relational engine and its next-generation big data extensions, driving Apache Spark performance, security, and integration with SQL Server. Previously he led core services and workload testing for Azure HDInsight, enabling multi-tenant Hive, Spark Streaming, and Storm on Azure while contributing to Hadoop and Hive. His background spans systems and driver development at Intel to scalable IoT cloud services, giving him deep end-to-end systems expertise from firmware to distributed analytics. Known for a zero-tolerance approach to defects and inefficiency, he combines rigorous engineering discipline with active community collaboration to push open-source projects toward production readiness.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at University of OregonM.E. Computer Science, M.E. Computer Science at Beihang UniversityB.E. Computer Science, B.E. Computer Science at Beijing Information Technology Institute
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Github Skills (89)
apache-spark10
python10
null-safety10
hadoop10
streaming10
iot-application10
javascript10
azure-cosmos-db10
r10
big-data10
scale10
sql10
data-processing10
azure10
storm10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
shanyu/hadooplogparser
Jun 2014 - May 2018
Hadoop Yarn aggregated log parser utility
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push in 4 years
yarnlog-parserhadoop-yarnparserhadoop
shanyu/spark
Aug 2015 - Jun 2020
Mirror of Apache Spark
Contributions:6 PRs, 14 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 11 months
spark-mlapachebig-datasparkscala
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