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Vice President of Engineering, PostgreSQL at Microsoft

Affan Dar is a Senior Engineering Leader at Microsoft with more than 25 years of experience in distributed systems. He leads the PostgreSQL engineering team at Microsoft, contributing to the Azure Database for PostgreSQL and the upstream PostgreSQL open-source project.

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