Pedro Lopes

Pedro Lopes is a Senior Director of Engineering at Salesforce, based in WA, USA, leading the organization responsible for the Marketing Cloud’s DB Management Plane.

Previously, he was a Principal Architect in Microsoft's Azure Data team, leading the SQL Server 2022 release until its Public Preview. He has 20+ years of industry experience and was with Microsoft for 12+ years.

He has extensive experience with query performance troubleshooting and a speaker at numerous conferences such as SQLBits, PASS Summit, SQLIntersection, Microsoft Ignite, and Microsoft Build. He wrote multiple technical articles about SQL currently in the product documentation, including several on Engine internals.