# Andrew Fogarty

> Andrew Fogarty is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft on the Apache Spark Runtime team in the Azure Data organization, based in New York City. This site is his homepage and his blog on software engineering, engineering management, Apache Spark, and distributed systems.

Canonical host: https://www.andrewfogarty.net/ (the apex domain redirects here). Every page is written by Andrew Fogarty, served as static HTML with no client-side rendering, and carries JSON-LD structured data (Person, WebSite, BlogPosting). The Atom feed below carries full post bodies.

## Writing

- [Recommended readings on software engineering management](https://www.andrewfogarty.net/writing/software-engineering-management/reading-list/): A working index of books Andrew Fogarty recommends to new and aspiring software engineering managers, grouped by career stage from year zero through year two. Published 2026-05-21, updated 2026-09-09. Category: software-engineering-management.

## Pages

- [Home](https://www.andrewfogarty.net/): biography, publications, external profiles, and open-source work
- [Writing](https://www.andrewfogarty.net/writing/): the index of every post, grouped by subject
- [Contact](https://www.andrewfogarty.net/contact/): an email form

## Publications

- [Intelligent Pooling: Proactive Resource Provisioning in Large-scale Cloud Service](https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/volumes/17/paper/Intelligent%20Pooling%3A%20Proactive%20Resource%20Provisioning%20in%20Large-scale%20Cloud%20Service): Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2024.
- [Towards Building Autonomous Data Services on Azure](https://doi.org/10.1145/3555041.3589674): Companion of the 2023 International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2023.
- [Hyperspace: The Indexing Subsystem of Azure Synapse](https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/volumes/14/paper/Hyperspace%3A%20The%20Indexing%20Subsystem%20of%20Azure%20Synapse): Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2021.
- [Helios: Hyperscale Indexing for the Cloud & Edge](https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/volumes/13/paper/Helios%3A%20Hyperscale%20Indexing%20for%20the%20Cloud%20%26%20Edge): Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2020.
- [A Browser-based Neume Metadata Editor](https://music-encoding.org/conference/programs/2015ConferenceProgram.pdf): Music Encoding Conference, 2015.

## Profiles

- [GitHub](https://github.com/AFFogarty)
- [LinkedIn](https://ca.linkedin.com/in/andrewfogarty)
- [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qoG6yo4AAAAJ)
- [dblp](https://dblp.org/pid/273/7169.html)

## Optional

- [Atom feed](https://www.andrewfogarty.net/feed.xml): full post bodies
- [Sitemap](https://www.andrewfogarty.net/sitemap.xml)