Shyam Pather
Shyam Pather is a Senior Development Lead on the Data Programmability Team at Microsoft, currently focused on building the first release of the ADO.NET Entity Framework. Shyam began his career at Microsoft in the Windows Networking team, working first on network driver infrastructure and 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 on ADO.NET. His team delivers key parts of the object-relational mapping technology on which the ADO.NET Entity Framework is based.