Theo Van Kraay
Principal Program Manager at Microsoft
Borough of Fylde, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTheo Van Kraay is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft with nine years of experience shaping cloud-native data services and a career rooted in software engineering and data science. He leads Java/JVM and Apache Cassandra efforts for Azure Cosmos DB, helping power global-scale applications including internal Microsoft services and external customers like OpenAI. His background spans data architecture, NoSQL, big data, ML/AI and customer-facing solution design, combining hands-on technical depth with product and partner success responsibilities. Previously he architected large-scale analytics and integration platforms for UK government and enterprise insurers, and holds a first-class MSc in Data Science—unusual for a senior PM whose original degree was in accountancy. Known for bridging distributed-systems thinking with practical customer proofs-of-concept, he focuses on making highly available, globally distributed databases simple and reliable for operators and developers alike.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Data Science, 1st, Master's degree, Data Science, 1st at University of DundeeBachelor's degree, Accountancy, Bachelor's degree, Accountancy at University of Central Lancashire
Italian, English
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Github Skills (156)
bicep10
python10
spring-data10
azure-functions10
microsoft-azure10
terraform10
sink10
cosmosdb10
azd-templates10
arm10
azure-spring-cloud10
lambda-architecture10
chatgpt10
architecture10
azure-sdk10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
Azure-Samples/azure-cosmos-cassandra-extensions-java-sample
Jan 2020 - Mar 2021
Java code sample for handling rate limiting and retries in Cassandra API using Cosmos retry policy extension
Contributions:5 commits, 8 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 2 months
policyapicassandraretriesazure-cosmos-db
TheovanKraay/cosmosdb-read-many-items-java
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Sample and demo for using readMany() method in Java SDK for Azure Cosmos DB
Contributions:8 reviews, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 1 month
azure-cosmos-dbcosmos-dbmethodsdkcosmosdb
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