Taryn Pratt
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Phoenix Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTaryn Pratt is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating data-intensive systems, currently focused on SQL Server on Azure VM at Microsoft. She transitioned from hands-on database administration and reliability engineering at Stack Overflow to senior program and engineering roles at Microsoft, blending deep operational expertise with product and program leadership. Taryn’s background spans software engineering, DBA work, and community-facing roles, giving her a rare perspective on both developer experience and production reliability. Based in Greater Phoenix, she brings practical cloud migration and SQL performance know-how and a proven track record of moving mission-critical database services to scalable Azure infrastructure. An early career mix of biomedical engineering studies and justice studies suggests a broad analytical mindset and an ability to navigate technical and policy-oriented challenges.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Justice Studies, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Justice Studies at Arizona State UniversityBiomedical/Medical Engineering, Biomedical/Medical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University
Github Skills (26)
bosun10
redis10
microsoft10
tsql10
microsoft-sql10
microsoft-azure10
sql-server10
data-tools10
sql10
mssql10
microsoft-sql-server10
azure10
ssms10
dotnet9
monitoring9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tarynpratt/misc_sql_scripts
Oct 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
tarynpratt/hugo-theme-jane
Aug 2018 - Nov 2018
A readable & concise theme for Hugo
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes in 2 months
hugohugo-themereadable
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