Ahmed Ayad

About Ahmed Ayad

A SQL Engineer by trade, a database guy by education and training, and data dude by passion.I am currently an Engineering Director of the Google #BigQuery Core Analytics team, spanning the core query processing, workload management, and migrations, building the best large scale enterprise data warehouse on the planet. Previously, I managed the Managed Storage and Workload Management team in BigQuery, owning the core storage parts involved in managing user data, metadata catalog, streaming and batch ingestion, replication, resource management and placement, physical sharding, and structured lake analytics. Over the years we have- Grew data under management by several orders of magnitude- Grew BigQuery\'s global footprint to more than 20+ regions and counting- Enabled the hyper scaling of data analytics for a Who\'s Who list of Fortune 500 users, both Enterprise and Cloud-native.I am passionate about building cool technologies at scale, and the effective teams that create them.Things I did in previous professional lives- I have shipped components in SQL Server product since SQL Server 2008. Worked on the Performance Data Collector, Policy Based Management, AlwaysOn, The Utility Control Point, SQL Azure stack from the backend to the middle-tier and Portal, SQL Server Agent, SQL Server Optimizer, and SQL Server Management Tools- Did Database research in the areas of Data Mining, Query Optimization, and Data Streaming.

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Google

   Nov 2022 — Present · WA, US

Education

• Alexandria University

  Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science

  1992 — 1997

• University of Wisconsin Madison

  Master's degree, Computer Science

  2000 — 2002

• Alexandria University

  Master's degree, Computer Science

  1997 — 2000

• University of Wisconsin Madison

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science

  2000 — 2006

Skills

• Databases
• Data Warehousing
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Software Development
• Algorithm Design
• Distributed Systems
• Database Design
• Data Management
• Algorithm Analysis
• C++
• Visual Studio
• Software Design
• Data Mining
• Cloud Computing
• Sql
• Distributed Algorithms
• Windows Azure
• Query Optimization
• Data Streaming
• Programming
• Web Services
• Scalability
• Parallel Programming
• Software Engineering
• Data Modeling
• Sql Azure
• C#
• .net
• Relational Databases
• Algorithms
• T-Sql
• Object Oriented Design