Shyam Pather

Shyam Pather is a Principal Development Manager in the Data and Modeling Group at Microsoft. Shyam and his team are focused on the ADO.NET Data Services Framework (previously known as Project “Astoria”), improving the DataSet experience with LINQ, and building the next generation of the core XML platform in Windows, Internet Explorer, and Office. Previously, his team built some of the key infrastructure pieces within the ADO.NET Entity Framework, including the object-relational mapping and metadata systems. 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 the Data and Modeling Group.