- 12 years of experience in database administration, site reliability engineering and web design & development. I design, configure and manage high volume databases with a focus on performance, security, scalability, reliability, high-availability, disaster-recovery and observability.
- Dealing with product owners,understanding their requirement, do capacity planning, provisioning & configuring the servers for optimal performance.
- Building and upgrading Infrastructure (IaC) on AWS using Terraform & Packer.
- Automating various DB operations and Configuring DB CI/CD pipelines using FlywayDB, CircleCI, GitHub, Kubernetes, Helm Charts.
- Helping the DevOps team to reduce Time to Release by automating and configuring pieces in CI/CD pipelines using CircleCI, AWS ECR, Docker, GitHub etc.
- Performing homogeneous and heterogenous database migrations both on- prem and on cloud.
- Performance Benchmarking and Server tuning for maximum resource utilization to squeeze best performance out of it.
- Interacting with developers, reviewing the performance reports and helping the teams in optimizing the slow performing queries.
- Installing & Upgrading database servers, determining backup strategies & security procedures and setting up HA & DR sites.
- Configuring replication, connection pooling and load balancing through different mechanisms and tools for enhanced performance and availabilty.
- Researching and configuring various tools for monitoring, alerting, generating performance reports and troubleshooting applications.
- Defining, Documenting and Maintaining DB and DevOps processes and best practices.
- Defining OKR's, Planning roadmaps and leveraging agile methodologies along with various open source tools for improved outcomes.
- Defining Incident Management and On-Call Processes and Managing a team of DBA’s and SRE engineers.
- Defining and configuring Policy as a Code to automate PR approvals.
- Designed and Developed web based applications using PHP, jQuery, CSS,HTML, Wordpress, Magento.
- Provided BI solution support to Enterprises using Oracle and Business Objects product suites.
- Enhancement and Support for reports in BOXI, Crystal Reports, SSRS.
- Demonstrated an unwavering resolve to do whatever must be done to produce the best long-term results and have been consistently able to exceed the set expectations.
- Love to take ownership of a problem and see it through the resolution while quickly adapting and implementing new technologies.
- Recognized for the automation initiatives and innovative approach towards the issues and Received Extra Miles award for exceeding the expectations in previous organizations.
- Database: PostgreSQL, AWS RDS, Aurora, MySQL, Redshift, Oracle, MongoDB
- Cloud: AWS, GCP, Azure, Digital Ocean
- DevOps & CI/CD: Docker Containers, Kubernetes, Kustomize, Helm Charts, IaC, Terraform, Packer, CircleCI, GitHub, Tortoise SVN, GitHub Workflows/Actions, OPA Rego
- OS/Servers: CentOS, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, MacOS, Windows, Apache, Nginx
- Scripting: SQL, Shell Scripting, YAML, Python, jQuery, JSON, PHP
- MELT Tools: Nagios, New Relic, SolarWinds, Splunk, Honeycomb, DataDog
- Tools: pgAdmin, flywayDB, pgBench, pgPool,pgAudit, foreigndatawrappers, pgBadger, pgRepack, PEM, OPM, EMS SQL Manager, TOAD, PuTTY, FileZilla, VS Code, StatusPage, dBeaver, BOXI, Crystal Reports
- Agile: Scrum, Kanban, Redmine, Jira, Confluence
- Worked as Senior Site Reliability Engineer in Talabat - Delivery Hero, Dubai, UAE from Mar 2019 to Feb 2022
- Worked as Database Administrator (PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB) in ABCO (UHG), Chennai from Apr 2017 to Mar 2019
- Worked as Network Specialist (PostgreSQL DBA) in Aricent Technologies for Cisco, Bangalore from Aug 2016 to Apr 2017
- Worked as Founder Director ThoughtBirds Technologies LLP, Pune and worked with it from Nov 2013 to Jul 2016
- Worked as Associate Engineer (PostgreSQL DBA) in Xento Systems, Pune from Oct 2012 to Oct 2013
- Worked as Assistant Systems Engineer in Tata Consultancy Services, Chennai from Jul 2007 to Feb 2010
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate in 2023
- The Linux Foundation Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) in 2021
- The Linux Foundation Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) in 2021
- Oracle Certified Foundations Associate - Cloud Infrastructure in 2022
- EDB Certified Professional - PostgreSQL 12 in 2020
- EDB Certified Associate - PostgreSQL 12 in 2020
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate in 2019
- Scrum Fundamentals Certified in 2014
- Oracle Certified Associate in Jul 2011
- IBM Big Data Administration 2015
- IBM Big Data Programming in 2015