2017-Present: Technical lead in SQL Server Engineering Systems - the tools and infrastructure for the end to end delivery pipeline from ideation to check-in, validation and shipping SQL Server and Azure SQL Database in a secure and compliant way.

2022-Present: Technical lead for deep code understanding services for the SQL server codebase and many codebases across Microsoft

2026-Present: Leading the team for modernizing the inner loop development tools & processes of SQL Server’s large 30-year codebase of 700 developers.

Research was focused on flow-insensitive Points-to analysis of C programs. Implemented compiler optimizations using Low Level Virtual Machine (LLVM)

Co-authored "Points-To Analysis with Efficient Strong Updates", submitted & accepted to POPL 2011. http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~olhotak/pubs/CS-2010-01.pdf

Supervised by Ondrej Lhotak (http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~olhotak/)

Programming Languages Group (http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/)

* Developed front-end applications for Data Warehouse

* Wrote tools to manage batch copying

* Designed & developed Javascript framework for queuing up expensive function calls to improve browser responsiveness & user experience

Side Projects:

* Developed Eclipse plug-in to copy automatically generated files whenever a source file is saved

* Developed prototype for the visualization and browser interactivity (i.e. clickable nodes) of arbitrary graphs using GraphViz