Sander Saares
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Making Rust a top-tier development platform for global-scale web services.
Skills
Expert in design and operation of cloud services scaling to tens of thousands of compute cores worldwide. Experienced running mission-critical services on a multi-cluster Kubernetes architecture while ensuring safe delivery processes, strict security and high availability.
Thoroughly familiar with modern media technologies:
- Full-stack media streaming architecture for live and on-demand scenarios spanning in-flight entertainment, cloud to mobile and cloud to home
- Content security and DRM on both the client and server side
- Design and implementation of content processing workflows
- Ultra low latency streaming at high scale
Solid understanding of computer networks, including multicast deployments and custom network protocol design.
Lead engineer
- 2021-2023 – a proprietary platform for high-scale delivery of ultra low latency media streams backing Teams town hall features
- 2017-2020 – Axinom LiveTV, delivering live channels over satellite to airline passengers without the need to deploy an app on the end-user devices
- 2012-2015 – Axinom Player SDK, a native multiplatform player for mobile devices, with built-in DRM support and hardware accelerated decoding
- 2009-2015 – Axinom DRM, one of the first DRM services designed from ground up to target multiple DRM technologies, covering all the popular device platforms
Community
Maintainer of the prometheus-net open source library for instrumenting .NET apps with metrics.
Former contributor to DASH-IF, an industry association that defines interoperability guidelines and specifications for modern media streaming technologies.
Employers
Microsoft
2020-now
Axinom
2008-2020
Fujitsu Services
2006-2008
Contact
sander@saares.eu