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Dba Dba

San Mateo

Summary

Results-driven hands-on database engineer with 15+ years of technical and leadership experience across Insurance, Real Estate, Entertainment, Automotive organizations. Proven expertise in ensuring database systems reliability and performance through SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) best practices. Excellent experience with overseeing and mentoring high performing global database teams. I like to stay up-to-date with technologies. I am passionate about data Security, and DevOps methodologies. Strong attention to details and excellent work ethics.

Experienced with team leadership, strategic planning, and operational management. Utilizes effective communication and organizational skills to drive project success. Track record of fostering productive work environments and achieving set goals.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Manager, Database Engineering

Guidewire Software
04.2023 - Current
  • Company Overview: Guidewire is a leading P&C (Property & Casualty) insurance cloud services platform provider with multiple software suites used by several insurance providers around the globe
  • Responsible for enterprise-wide database tech stack roadmap and align with business and executive leadership goals
  • Responsible for a global and high performing database engineering team
  • Provide technical leadership, build/hire/mentor/motivate database engineers and promote personal and professional development
  • Lead efforts to implement optimal solutions for databases backups, recovery, high availability, scalability, database security etc
  • Build relationships with internal and external stakeholders and foster cross team collaboration
  • Guide the database engineers through conflicting priorities and tasks
  • Oversee critical client facing application and database performance and optimization solutions
  • Manage and build vendor relationships for existing and new database related products/contracts
  • Hands-on experience with planning, building and automating self serve solutions using terraform, git, teamCity, docker, bash, python, SQL etc
  • Responsible for pager duty and opsgenie on-call rotation schedules and escalation policies
  • Drive extensive documentation, run book, ticketing templates and efforts
  • Plan and implement enterprise wide/centralized database Monitoring & Alerting Solutions
  • Plan and implement enterprise wide database operations and development best practice guidelines and processes
  • Guidewire is a leading P&C (Property & Casualty) insurance cloud services platform provider with multiple software suites used by several insurance providers around the globe

Manager, Database Reliability Engineering

Paciolan
08.2021 - 04.2023
  • Company Overview: Paciolan (a former division of TicketMaster) is a leader in the college sports ticketing services/platform business
  • Plan and implement Enterprise wide database admin and development best practice guidelines and processes
  • Drive POCs towards migrating on-prem databases to the Cloud
  • Plan and drive on-prem database upgrades and migrations to AWS/RDS while ensuring database scalability, resiliency and reliability
  • Guide the team to determine and enforce DB governance and security policies
  • Responsible for documenting database SLI and SLO metrics to meet SLAs
  • Responsible for on call DBA support/rotation schedule with escalation procedures
  • Participate in annual PCI and SOX audits and drive database related changes to comply with such audits
  • Paciolan (a former division of TicketMaster) is a leader in the college sports ticketing services/platform business

Principal Database Admin/Engineer

ADP
08.2015 - 08.2021
  • Company Overview: ADP is a leader in the payroll industry providing a wide variety of cloud-based solutions in the FinTech industry
  • Successfully planned and drove critical on premise database migrations to AWS
  • Build/hire/mentor very high performing Database Development, ETL and DBA teams from ground up
  • Document & enforce Database Admin and Development best practices and guidelines
  • Work with application development teams in building features that perform at scale and fine tune problematic legacy code
  • Experience with several replication technologies for local HA, DR, on prem to AWS including 'Global Database' replication
  • Introduced and deployed a critical MiddleWare 'Scalearc' App HA/DR(active) solution for the entire application/database stack to cut down switchover and failover incidents from 1-2 minutes to
  • 4-5 seconds
  • Successfully drove database hardware and software upgrade projects
  • Planned and implemented Enterprise wide database backup, recovery and DR strategies for business continuity
  • Collaborated with several internal teams and software vendors to identify vulnerabilities on a pro-active basis and roll out state of the art Infrastructure wide PCI/DSS compatible database Security solutions including data masking, encryption and near real time auditing tools
  • Co-ordinate with and roll out AWS SSL Certs to all Aurora DB Clusters
  • Roll out and enforce DB access and security policies
  • Roll out Enterprise wide database Monitoring Solutions resulting in core systems uptime to 'five nines'
  • Oversaw critical client facing database performance and optimization solutions
  • Roll out DBMaestro tool for CI/CD database (as code) deployments
  • Design and implement database sharding and partitioning
  • Go to database professional/liasion for several Internal teams/stakeholders including but not limited to - Application Development, Product Management, Project Management, QA, DevOps, IT Security teams
  • Design and rollout Talend ETL jobs
  • Plan and implement on call DBA support/rotation schedule with escalation procedures for on-site and offshore personnel
  • ADP is a leader in the payroll industry providing a wide variety of cloud-based solutions in the FinTech industry

Manager, Database Operations

Auction.com
01.2012 - 08.2015
  • DBA Manager responsible for database development, architecture and operations and setting up auction.com’s Oracle & MySQL databases for OLTP applications which include databases in dev, qa, prod, standby (logical/physical), DR 11g RAC and single instance databases
  • Responsible for leading the database team towards planning, overseeing and successfully executing a highly critical data ctr migration project
  • Responsible for architecting a data mart/data model for SalesForce
  • Responsible for delegating tasks to DBA personnel and setting/tracking quarterly goals
  • Responsible for defining and driving Oracle & MySQL technology strategy and road map
  • Responsible for setting up Oracle Database Gateway (ODBG) for replication from Oracle to MySQL
  • Planned and implemented backup and recovery solutions for Oracle and MySQL databases
  • Introduce and guide the team through monitoring solutions and best practices for databases
  • Plan, test and set up HA solutions for Oracle and MySQL databases
  • Standardize DB change control and deployment processes
  • Responsible for DB team personnel hiring, performance reviews, mentoring, on-call rotation and incident escalation procedures
  • Planned and implemented pro-active database monitoring policies and procedures
  • Work with vendors towards software, support and license purchasing etc

Lead Oracle DBA

EndPlay.com
08.2011 - 02.2012
  • Responsible for administering and maintaining 7 node 11gR2 RAC high uptime OLTP database cluster on OEL & NetApp storage
  • Create shell scripts for/to automate routine DBA tasks
  • Document routine DBA maintenance tasks
  • Responsible for setting up hot physical standby environment
  • Document existing DB layout and Infrastructure
  • Design and implement backup and restore strategies
  • Go-to DBA for all projects, DB deployments, issues

Sr. Oracle DBA

CoreLogic Inc
04.2010 - 08.2011
  • Responsible for administering 140 (11g,10g,9i) Oracle databases with over 70 Terabytes of data on Solaris and Linux platforms including critical external & internal customer facing databases
  • Manage and troubleshoot Oracle Streams environments
  • Provide 24x7 support and maintain high uptimes for several critical production systems
  • Work with Unix & storage admins to design and implement database hardware, storage for new and existing environments
  • Work with Unix admins to troubleshoot database/SAN BCV clones, snapshots and SRDF-A issues as and when required
  • Maintain data guard for HA & DR
  • Implement flashback on standby databases for DR tests
  • Perform Netbackup alternate-client restores to clone Production databases to QA as and when necessary
  • Participated in team efforts to document existing backup, maintenance, scripts etc
  • For reference

Sr. Oracle DBA

Paramount Pictures
01.2008 - 04.2010
  • Install, configure, and administer one of the largest Linux based Oracle RAC/SAP implementations (3 nodes)
  • Set up a 3 node RAC Data Guard/standby for SAP production database (using RMAN)
  • Install, configure and setup TDP for oracle and integrate RMAN with TDP client for backup and recovery
  • Set up RMAN catalog database, document RMAN scripts / guidelines for database backups, restores (UAT/Dev refreshes)
  • Install, configure & maintain Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid control for monitoring, administration and tuning
  • Perform adhoc restores of Production databases onto QA systems using RMAN or data pump
  • Perform RAC and single instance database upgrades / migrations
  • Actively involved in DR tests and validated DR strategies using native Oracle and EMC replication technologies

Education

M.S. - Computer Science

New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, NJ

B.E. - Mechanical Engineering

Osmania University

Skills

  • Database Reliability Engineering
  • Performance Tuning
  • Automation & Scripting
  • Monitoring & Incident Response
  • Data Security
  • Audit & Compliance
  • Collaboration & Communication

Areas Of Excellence

  • Database Reliability Engineering
  • Performance Tuning
  • Automation & Scripting
  • Monitoring & Incident Response
  • Data Security, Audit & Compliance
  • Collaboration & Communication

Continuouslearning

  • Databases – PostgreSQL Certified DB, MySQL Certified DBA, Oracle Certified RAC DBA
  • Cloud Tech - AWS Certified Solutions Architect
  • Scripting and Automation – Bash, Python, Docker, Terraform Certified Associate, TeamCity, Git, K8s
  • Security - InfoSec CISSP Training
  • Networking - CCNA Routing & Switching
  • Orchestration Tools – Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (
  • In progress
  • )

Timeline

Manager, Database Engineering

Guidewire Software
04.2023 - Current

Manager, Database Reliability Engineering

Paciolan
08.2021 - 04.2023

Principal Database Admin/Engineer

ADP
08.2015 - 08.2021

Manager, Database Operations

Auction.com
01.2012 - 08.2015

Lead Oracle DBA

EndPlay.com
08.2011 - 02.2012

Sr. Oracle DBA

CoreLogic Inc
04.2010 - 08.2011

Sr. Oracle DBA

Paramount Pictures
01.2008 - 04.2010

B.E. - Mechanical Engineering

Osmania University

M.S. - Computer Science

New Jersey Institute of Technology

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