HA and DR
Replication, failover, recovery objectives, runbooks, and disaster exercises.
DBA / Reliability / Data Stewardship
I keep critical data inside the vault.
Database Administrator focused on high-availability architecture, performance tuning, backup strategy, recovery engineering, access control, and calm operations when production gets loud.
99.99%availability
REPLICA 01
BACKUP RPO
QUERY PLAN
ACCESS RBAC
Operating model
Reliable by
design.
A DBA portfolio should show more than tools. It should show disciplined thinking around uptime, data integrity, observability, security, and recovery.
PRINCIPLE_01
Protect the data. Reduce the surprise. Make recovery boring.
availability x integrity x observability
8+
years managing production databases
40TB
largest managed data estate
18m
records optimized in one migration
-63%
peak query latency after tuning
Expertise matrix
The DBA
toolbox.
Capabilities presented as an operational matrix rather than generic percentage bars.
Performance
Execution plans, indexing, partitioning, workload analysis, and bottleneck hunting.
Security
RBAC, least privilege, auditing, secrets hygiene, and controlled database access.
Automation
SQL, Bash, Python, monitoring hooks, scheduled maintenance, and repeatable operations.
Experience
Production
field notes.
Selected roles and operational outcomes across transactional, analytical, and cloud database environments.
Lead Database Administrator · Northstar Commerce
Own Oracle and PostgreSQL estates supporting payment, inventory, and order workloads. Introduced proactive capacity forecasting, standardized recovery drills, and query regression gates for release pipelines.
Senior DBA · Meridian Fintech
Managed high-volume transactional systems with strict availability targets. Reworked indexing and partitioning strategy, cutting critical report runtimes while improving replication observability.
Database Engineer · BluePeak Systems
Built backup automation, maintenance routines, monitoring dashboards, and migration playbooks for growing SaaS products across Linux-based database infrastructure.
Case files
Inside the
vault.
Selected database initiatives framed around the operational problem, intervention, and measurable result.
Zero-drama PostgreSQL failover
Designed a multi-node HA topology with automated health checks, tested promotion paths, and documented recovery procedures for a customer-facing transaction platform.
SELECT health FROM cluster;
WHERE role = 'primary';
-- failover: rehearsed
WHERE role = 'primary';
-- failover: rehearsed
Query latency reset
Mapped expensive query paths, corrected statistics drift, and redesigned targeted indexes.
Recovery vault
Rebuilt backup validation around restore tests, retention tiers, and auditable recovery evidence.
Credentials
Proof of
practice.
Certifications and learning milestones that reinforce production database stewardship.
Contact
Let us make
data dependable.
Have a database estate that needs hardening, tuning, migration planning, or better recovery confidence? Send a note.