Michael Pizzo

Background

About Michael Pizzo

Michael Pizzo has worked for over 30 years in the design and delivery of data access solutions and APIs at Microsoft. Michael first got involved in data access as a Program Manager for Microsoft Excel in 1987, integrating Microsoft’s flagship spreadsheet product with relational data. This led to his involvement in the design and delivery of ODBC, along with the ODBC-based Microsoft Query Tool shipped with Microsoft Office. During the design of ODBC, Michael was active in the standards organizations, sitting as Chair for the SQL Access Group, working with X/Open on the CAE specification for “Data Management: SQL-Call Level Interface (CLI)”, serving as Microsoft’s representative to the ANSI X3H2 Database Committee, and as an elected ANSI representative to the ISO committee meetings that defined and adopted Part 3 of the ANSI/ISO SQL specification for a call-Level Interface (SQL/CLI). Following ODBC, Michael was a key designer and driver of Microsoft’s OLE DB API for componentized data access within a COM environment. He later owned the design and delivery of ADO.NET version 1.0, leading into the architecture and design of the ADO.NET Entity Framework 1.0. Currently a Principal Architect and Engineering Manager in Microsoft's Identity Division, Michael continues to make data available to developers through Microsoft Graph. Michael continues his involvement in industry Standards as Co-Chair of the OASIS OData Technical Committee which owns the OData protocol, published by both OASIS and ISO Standards committees.