Clemens Szyperski

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Bellevue, Washington, United States38 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in software architecture and component-based systems.
Led development of Azure Data Lake Analytics and Stream Analytics.
Pioneered extensible programming languages and systems.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS architect with extensive experience in data analytics and component-based software systems.

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C#.NETCloud ComputingType SystemsComponent SoftwareSoftware DesignVisual StudioRESTOperating SystemsTeam LeadershipAgile Project ManagementMultithreadingWin32 APIEnterprise SoftwareWindows Azure

About

Ever since my "first contact" with computers during my childhood, I have been fascinated by the interplay of languages, extensibility, composability, and evolution of software systems and services. Strangely, when seen through these glasses my career path looks dead straight. My goal is to follow this trajectory for as long as it is willing to carry me. Specialties: Component software, software ecosystem, software architecture, programming languages, parallel and distributed computing, type systems, dataflow, signals-to-knowledge

Experience

38 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

7 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

1 mo

Current Experience

Oracle

Architect

Apr 2026 – Present · 1 mo · Seattle, WA · Remote

Microsoft

4 roles

Principal Software Architect

Oct 2020 – Mar 2026 · 5 yrs 5 mos

Jan 2022-present: Architecture of Microsoft Fabric Data Activator. Announced at Build 2023.
Oct 2020-Dec 2021: Architectural coordination for Azure Synapse Analytics.

Principal Group Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Oct 2014 – Jul 2023 · 8 yrs 9 mos

My team delivers the new Azure Data Lake Analytics capabilities around our groundbreaking U-SQL language. Declarative on the outside, deeply extensible on the inside! The combination of best-in-class tooling, a state-of-the-art optimizer for execution at massive scale, and the ability to run custom code - in .NET, Python, and R (more to come) makes for a highly differentiated offering. For the general availability announcement.
We also deliver the Azure Stream Analytics service, generally available in almost all Azure regions since mid 2015. A declarative approach to high-level stream and complex-event processing with rich connectivity and high reliability. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/stream-analytics/

Principal Development Manager

Aug 2013 – Oct 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos

Principal Development Lead

Feb 1999 – Jul 2013 · 14 yrs 5 mos

Qut (queensland university of technology)

Associate Professor

Oct 1994 – Jan 1999 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Brisbane, QLD, Australia

QUT - Queensland University of Technology, is located in Brisbane, Australia.
School of Computing Science (now merged with the former School of Data Communications into the new School of Software Engineering and Data Communications - funny name that).
Also director of Programming Languages and Systems research centre.

Oberon microsystems, inc.

Director of Research

Aug 1993 – Oct 1994 · 1 yr 2 mos · Zurich, Switzerland

Development of: "Component Pascal", a programming language for extensible component-based systems; "BlackBox Component Builder", a component-oriented application framework for Win32 and Mac OS.

Icsi - international computer science institute

Postdoc

Aug 1992 – Jul 1993 · 11 mos · Berkeley, CA, USA

During my year at the ICSI, I worked on: "Tenet 2", a suite of hard realtime network protocols; "Sather 2", an object-oriented programming language.

Eth zürich

Research Assistant

Jan 1987 – Jan 1992 · 5 yrs · Zurich, Switzerland

My work at ETH yielded a number of systems-research results, including: "Write", a simple extensible document editor supporting active objects; "Ethos", the main object of my PhD thesis, an extensible object-oriented OS.