Sam Bayless Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, Us

Manage the team responsible for ObjectStore which is a distributed, low latency, high availability, searchable no SQL data table similar to systems like DynamoDB or MongoDB. ObjectStore has grown its capabilities over the years to include full text search as well as deep learning inferences and vector search. It also supports many levels of compliance such as SOC, FedRamp, ITAR and Air-gapped environments.• Manage a geo-distributed team of 40+ engineers across the US, China and India ensuring excellent collaboration, mentorship and direction.• Drive future vision and planning in order to ensure live site goals and new customer scenarios are met.• Leading compliance efforts including personally attending and leading audits (SOC, FedRamp, ITAR).• Expanded usage beyond Bing into Office and Azure resulting in 10’s of millions of dollars savings.• Bootstrapped a new development team in India of 10 developers getting them highly productive in ~9 months.• Directly lead work to minimize live site effort while scaling the system up from 15k machines hosting 5k tables to 130k machines hosting 30k tables.• Member of production on call loop (the only group manager still doing this on the broader team).• Integrated with several open-source systems including Spark, RocksDB, HBase and HDFS.• ObjectStore Architecture: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/evolution-bings-objectstore/

Redmond, Washington, Us

Manage the team responsible for ObjectStore which is a distributed, low latency, high availability, searchable no SQL data table similar to systems like DynamoDB or MongoDB. ObjectStore has grown its capabilities over the last years to include super efficient graph traversals as well as deep learning inferences and vector search. It also supports many levels of compliance such as SOC, FedRamp and ITAR.• Drive the future vision and planning for the team in order to ensure live site goals are met and new customer scenarios are handled.• Leading effort to create best in industry graph traversal service.• Leading compliance efforts including personally attending and leading audits.• Manage and mentor team members to ensure high quality, moral and team interactions.• Work with Partner teams inside Microsoft to understand their usage scenarios and make sure they are worked back into our plans. • Personally lead work to keep the manual live site effort the same while scaling the system up from 500 machines hosting a dozen tables to 30,000 machines hosting 10,000 tables.• CJIS and IT-2 government clearancesYou can read about ObjectStore here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/evolution-bings-objectstore/

Redmond, Washington, Us

Work on ObjectStore which is a distributed, low latency, high availability no SQL data table similar to systems like Casandra or MongoDB.• Technical lead responsible for keeping the availability high and that latency low for the live site of the system.• Lead work to keep the manual live site effort the same while scaling the system up from 500 machines host a dozen tables to 15,000 machines hosting 5,000 tables.• Owner of data replication and consistency between replicas.• Member of the top level of live site responsible individuals who respond to issues in real time.• Responsible for mentoring and on-boarding new team members • Participate and sign off on major designs for future features

Redmond, Washington, Us

Worked on the next generation of Pegasus system now called ObjectStore. ObjectStore is a distributed, low latency, high availability no SQL data table similar to systems like Casandra or MongoDB. However, unlike Pegasus, ObjectStore runs in a service model instead of a platform model.• Owner of data replication and consistency system between replicas• Member of the top level of live site responsible individuals who respond to issues in real time• Main mentor for new team members to help on-board them to the team• Interfaced with customer teams to help them find the best designs for their applications while using our system

Redmond, Washington, Us

I worked on Pegasus which is a distributed, low latency, high availability no SQL data table similar to systems like Casandra or MongoDB.• Implemented and tested features to improve the cross replica data consistency of the system• Implemented and tested features to improve the customer experience when working with tables• Participated in live site investigations and made fixes to support the stability of the system.

I am an independent game developer who has shipped on PC, Mobile and Xbox. My games have been downloaded over 1 million times so far.• Majority of the dev work is done by me in Unity C# • Assembled and led a team consisting of artists, sound engineers, writers and developers• Top game has a 4.5/5 star rating with over 1,600 reviews in USA• Integration with Web3 platforms such as EnjinCurrent Game: https://Etherscape.io

Redmond, Washington, Us

Began a project to migrate the Pegasus system onto the Bing datacenter automation platform known as Autopilot. This work was the start of what ultimately resulted in the entire Delivery Engine team moving to adopt Autopilot.

Worked with large customers such as Bank of America to develop automated telecommunications applications for them such as credit card fraud alerting