Experience
Ten years, three companies, one craft.
Each role expanded the scope — from operating databases reliably to architecting systems that scale and pass audits without drama.
- Present
Senior Database Administrator
Third OrganizationLeading database performance, automation, and audit-readiness across mission-critical MSSQL & PostgreSQL workloads. Mentoring junior DBAs and owning DR strategy.
- Mid-career
Database Administrator
Second OrganizationOwned tuning programs across MSSQL and MySQL — reduced query latencies, rebuilt indexing strategy, and rolled out monitoring & alerting standards.
- May 14, 2013
Junior Database Administrator
First OrganizationStarted my DBA journey — learning production operations, backups, query analysis, and the discipline of running databases that people depend on.