Cristian Petculescu
Corporate Vice President and Technical Fellow at Microsoft, Chief Architect of Azure Data
- Role
- Microsoft
- Location
- Redmond, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Cristian Petculescu
I am a Technical Fellow at Microsoft, and, in particular, the Chief Architect of Azure Data.Azure Data includes:1. Microsoft Fabric2. The Intelligence Platform: Power BI, Azure Analysis Services, Azure Synapse (DataWarehouse, Spark, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Explorer aka Kusto), Cosmos, Azure Messaging.3. The operational databases group: SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, Cosmos DB, Azure MySQLI have been working inside Microsoft since 1997, after I have received the MSc degree in computer science from \'Politehnica\' University of Bucharest. My responsibilities include technical strategy for the products of the Azure Data, technical tactical guidance for the teams of the division, and. well. a lot of coding. I am an author of 49 granted patents, and many more pending. I have received my PhD degree in Computer Science from \'Politehnica\' University of Bucharest in 2006.I am one of the core co-inventors of the SQL Server in-memory technology (Vertipaq)- the technology that is the backbone of the columnar indexes, as well as of the tabular storage engine of Analysis ServicesSpecialties: Server architecture, database system architecture, distributed systems, technical coordination of teams.
Experience
Present
Education
University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest
BSc, Computer Science
1990 — 1995
University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest
MSc, Computer Science
1995 — 1996
University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest
PhD, Computer Science
1998 — 2006
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