Armaan Sood
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
- Role
- Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Armaan Sood
Senior Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience building high-scale distributed data systems at Microsoft. Proven track record of leading teams to deliver core database internals. Lead inventor of multiple patents in distributed databases, storage, backup, and indexing. Strong foundation in database internals and C++ programming. Consistent high impact at Microsoft.Passionate about systems architecture, databases, upleveling others, and continuous learning.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Jan 2023 — Present · Redmond, WA, US
Tech lead for a team of engineers to ship cross-product feature (long-term archival backup/restore) with tight deadlines. Implementing key areas including non-blocking consistent snapshots- Invited speaker at Microsoft Research (2024)- Tech lead for a new cloud-native distributed storage engine, as part of shifting Cosmos DB from shared-nothing to a cloud-native disaggregated architecture. Wrote technical vision, strategy, and roadmap for a cloud-native disaggregated storage engine to power the future of Cosmos DB- Delivered high-scale features including latch-free B+ trees (BwTree), new LSM-tree compaction algorithms (in collaboration with researchers), instant autoscale, HTAP-enablement, B+ tree debloater, NUMA node adaptive memory algorithm for buffer pool, log-structured storage engine powering point-in-time-restore, and more- Modern C++ library implementer for coroutines, promises, custom allocators, etc- Regular on-call engineer for multiple areas in Cosmos DB (HA/replication, Storage, Indexing, BwTree, Point-in-time-restore, HTAP, crash dump debugging)
Education
University of Washington
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics
2016 — 2020
University of Washington
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science
2016 — 2020
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