Shyam Pather

Shyam Pather is a Principal Development Lead on the Data Programmability Team at Microsoft. His team built some of the key infrastructure pieces within the ADO.NET Entity Framework, including the object-relational mapping and metadata systems. Shyam and his team are now focused on the Astoria project (an effort to help developers expose data services on the web), improving the DataSet experience with LINQ, and building the next generation of the core XML platform.

Shyam began his career at Microsoft in the Windows Networking team, working first on network driver infrastructure, then on the first two releases of Universal Plug and Play in Windows. Shyam joined the SQL Server team to work on an incubation project that eventually became SQL Server Notification Services. After shipping two releases of that product, Shyam started in his current role in Data Programmability.

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