Professional Summary

Staff-level Database and Platform Engineer with 15+ years of experience designing, scaling, and operating mission-critical data infrastructure across high-growth SaaS, aviation, gaming, consulting, and enterprise environments.

Specialized in solving complex data integrity, performance, scalability, and operational reliability challenges that impact multiple engineering organizations. Recognized as a technical escalation point for high-risk database incidents, difficult production issues, and large-scale architectural migrations.

Deep expertise across MySQL, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, DevOps automation, distributed systems, database reliability engineering, and AI-assisted operational tooling. Proven record of enabling engineering teams through platform development, self-service infrastructure, automated governance, and scalable data architectures.

Areas of Expertise

Certifications: AWS SysOps Administrator Associate, AWS Cloud Practitioner

Professional Experience

Served as a senior technical leader and escalation point for database reliability, data integrity, platform engineering, and cloud infrastructure initiatives supporting multiple engineering organizations.

Selected Impact

• Trusted escalation engineer for the organization’s most complex database performance, operational, and data consistency incidents.
• Supported and enabled 10+ engineering teams through platform improvements, database automation, and performance optimization.
• Led multiple zero-downtime migrations involving multi-terabyte production datasets.
• Established automated database deployment workflows enabling safe schema changes for 30+ developers.
• Reduced operational risk through multi-cloud disaster recovery architecture.
• Pioneered AI-assisted database engineering capabilities integrated into operational workflows and developer tooling.

Key Accomplishments

• Led organization-wide migration from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8, modernizing database infrastructure while maintaining service continuity across critical production systems.

• Designed and executed zero-downtime migration of more than 2 TB of production data to support horizontal scaling initiatives.

• Established a company-wide data integrity program addressing systemic data consistency issues and improving trust in business-critical datasets.

• Consolidated approximately 30 Redis instances through proxy-based sharding architecture.

• Built database observability tooling and slow-query analytics platforms that improved diagnosis and remediation of production performance issues.

• Designed custom automation integrating Kubernetes, HAProxy, Python, and cloud infrastructure to support zero-downtime database migrations.

• Implemented CI/CD workflows for database schema changes using Liquibase and GitLab.

• Developed secure database access and credential lifecycle management using Vault and Terraform.

• Created ephemeral MySQL and PostgreSQL environments enabling faster testing and developer productivity.

• Architected disaster recovery solutions spanning GCP and AWS.

• Fixed hundreds of production-impacting queries and served as primary escalation engineer for complex database performance investigations.

• Built AI-powered DBA automation tooling leveraging Gemini, OpenAI, and LLM workflows.

• Designed and deployed an internal MCP server providing safe AI access to production schemas, query plans, and metadata across 17 databases.

• Developed shared Claude Code skills and AI-assisted engineering workflows adopted by DBA, DevOps, Infrastructure, and Security teams.

• 200 databases managed

• Largest DB > 18 TB

• 80,000 transaction per second

• 150 Engineers supported

• Mitigated hundreds of incidents

• Saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in cost

• Utilized 10 AI skills to increase performance in code

• Architected and developed a Flask-based attendance and meal-tracking platform serving daycare organizations.
• Designed PostgreSQL schema architecture and migration workflows using Alembic.
• Engineered infrastructure automation that automatically reduced database costs during inactivity periods.
• Rapidly delivered pandemic-related capabilities that helped customers continue operating and reopening.
• Reduced cloud operating costs by approximately 85% while maintaining platform reliability and customer experience.

• Led enterprise containerization initiatives migrating airline microservices to OpenShift.
• Designed Infrastructure-as-Code standards spanning AWS and VMware environments using Terraform.
• Built CI/CD platforms that migrated engineering teams from Bamboo to Jenkins.
• Developed automation frameworks using Ansible across database, middleware, messaging, and application platforms.
• Engineered networking and load-balancing solutions using F5 technologies.
• Built Python automation systems capable of generating pull requests and reducing manual engineering effort.

• Managed thousands of databases through extensive automation of backups, replication, deployments, refreshes, and disaster recovery processes.
• Built and maintained enterprise Flyway migration frameworks.
• Developed critical aviation compliance data solutions supporting pilot legality systems.
• Architected major operational and commercial data models including hotel, seat, search, and check-in platforms.

• Developed and maintained Teradata ETL, BI, and operational reporting solutions.
• Authored BTEQ and Tpump automation supporting large-scale enterprise data workflows.

• Developed Oracle PL/SQL data-mining solutions supporting wealth intelligence products.
• Designed ETL pipelines integrating multiple enterprise data sources into Exadata platforms.

• Developed executive supply-chain analytics data models for Pfizer leadership and operational reporting initiatives.

• Authored mathematical and statistical modeling components for confidential government studies.
• Developed analytical methodologies involving Kalman filtering and advanced quantitative analysis.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Maryland / Yeshiva University

• Cum Laude with Departmental Honors
• Overall GPA: 3.65
• Major GPA: 4.0

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