Peter Spiro
Technical Fellow
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Peter Spiro is a Technical Fellow working in the Platforms and Services Division at Microsoft. He is currently focused on defining Microsoft’s future storage platform, spanning from devices to desktops to enterprises to cloud storage. He is considered one of the world’s foremost experts in database internals.
Spiro joined Microsoft in 1994 as a change agent targeted at expanding Microsoft’s presence in the commercial database industry. He was one of the principal architects of SQL Server 7.0, which required significant re-architecture to implement its major advances in ease-of-use and automatic tuning. Spiro was also the leader for the WinFS effort, which has evolved into the Integrated Storage vision for the database group.
Spiro worked at Digital Equipment Corporation, as the Technical Director for DEC Rdb and DEC DBMS before coming to Microsoft. He was one of the key contributors to a unique database kernel used as the storage platform for relational database, and Codasyl database systems. He was also a key contributor to the cross-company transition to the Alpha architecture at DEC.
Spiro has a bachelor’s degree in Natural Resources Management from Colorado State University and two Master’s degrees--Forestry and Computer Science--from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He holds a number of patents related to storage technology.
Before he went to graduate school, Spiro worked for the Peace Corps as a charcoal maker in Mali, West Africa. An avid traveler and hiker, Spiro also serves on the board of the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust.
