José Blakeley
José Blakeley is a software architect in the SQL Server division at Microsoft Corporation working with the SQL Server Engine team. Previously he was lead architect in the Data Programmability team and helped to build the ADO.NET Entity. José was a lead designer of the SQLCLR integration in SQL Server 2005 and has contributed to numerous programmability and extensibility features in various SQL Server releases. Before joining Microsoft in 1994, José was a Member of the Technical Staff at the Computer Science Laboratory at Texas Instruments where he was a principal investigator in the development of DARPA Open-OODB, an object-oriented database system. He has over 20 granted or pending patents. José received a computer systems engineering degree from ITESM, Monterrey, Mexico, and M.Math and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Waterloo, Canada.