MD Marcus DaleDBA / DATA OPERATIONS
BENTO / 01 - DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR

Mine the
signal.

I design dependable database environments where performance, recoverability and data integrity are treated as one system, not three separate checkboxes.

SELECT reliability FROM production WHERE surprise = 0;
LIVE SIGNAL / 24x7

Calm data
under pressure.

The DBA craft as a visual language of layers: core data, surrounding safeguards, and the operational signals that keep everything trustworthy.

RPO / RTO READY
02 - Operating philosophy

Reliable databases
are engineered, not hoped for.

I work across production database operations, high availability, recovery engineering, performance tuning, security controls and migration planning. The goal is simple: make critical data boring to operate and easy to trust.

Protect the data. Reduce the surprise. Make recovery repeatable.
99.99%availability target
42TBestate managed
63%latency reduction
03 - Expertise map

The DBA toolkit,
without the clutter.

Capabilities represented as quarry layers rather than generic percentage bars.

HA & DR Replication, failover, RPO/RTO, restore drills.
Performance Plans, indexes, partitioning, workload analysis.
Security RBAC, least privilege, auditing and secrets hygiene.
Automation SQL, Bash, Python, maintenance and observability.
04 - Casebook / Selected work

Three layers of
database craft.

CASE / 001

Zero-drama PostgreSQL failover

Designed a multi-node HA topology with automated health checks, rehearsed promotion paths and recovery runbooks for a customer-facing transaction platform.

PostgreSQLPatroniLinuxDR
CASE / 002

Query latency reset

Mapped expensive query paths, corrected statistics drift and redesigned targeted indexes to remove recurring production bottlenecks.

OracleSQL Tuning
CASE / 003

Recovery vault

Rebuilt backup validation around restore tests, retention tiers and auditable recovery evidence.

RMANRPO/RTO
05 - Experience strata

Production
field notes.

Lead Database Administrator · Northstar Commerce

Own Oracle and PostgreSQL estates supporting payment, inventory and order workloads. Introduced capacity forecasting, recovery drills and query regression gates.

Senior DBA · Meridian Fintech

Managed high-volume transactional systems with strict availability targets while improving indexing, partitioning and replication observability.

Database Engineer · BluePeak Systems

Built backup automation, maintenance routines, monitoring dashboards and migration playbooks for growing SaaS infrastructure.

07 - Contact

Let's make
data dependable.

For DBA leadership, database reliability programs, performance reviews, migration planning or recovery hardening, send a note.

✉ marcus@example.com
◈ Manchester, UK
in GH