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Santhana Gopalan

Business Development Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India18 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in transforming database challenges into business growth.
  • Proven track record with 100+ global clients.
  • Strong focus on performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Database Management and Business Development expert in the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Database ManagementBusiness DevelopmentSales Management

Other Skills

Amazon AuroraAmazon EC2Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)Business AnalysisBusiness StrategyCCRMCassandraConsultingCost OptimizationCross-functional Team LeadershipCustomer Relationship ManagementCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Database MigrationEnterprise Software

About

I help businesses solve database complexity and turn it into a growth advantage. As part of Mydbops, I work closely with founders, CTOs, and engineering leaders to understand their database challenges—whether it’s performance, cost optimization, migrations, or reliability—and connect them with the right solutions. With experience across MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, TiDB, and Cassandra, I don’t just talk technology—I translate it into business value. Over the years, I’ve helped 100+ clients globally simplify operations, reduce cloud costs, and scale their databases to match business growth. What I focus on: Building long-term client partnerships and trust Identifying pain points and aligning them with the right solutions Helping businesses achieve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency in their databases Showcasing how database strategy directly drives business outcomes I am passionate about enabling organizations to move faster, scale smarter, and spend wisely with the right database solutions.

Experience

Mydbops

Head Of Business Development

Feb 2020Present · 6 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Mydbops consulting & managed services can make database management easier while also improving efficiency. Since 2015, we have provided assistance, maintenance, consulting, and 24x7 activity for the top three open source databases, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, TiDB and Cassandra as well as all related technologies. We assist organisations in improving their database's efficiency, scalability, reliability, and up-time.
  • We assist our clients by detecting possible bottlenecks, design flaws, and architectural problems, as well as recommending and enforcing best practices. We also provide seamless database support to our customers, allowing them to handle and maintain their daily activities without interruption.
MySQLMongoDBPostgreSQLTiDBCassandraDatabase Management+3

Mafiree

Sr Manager - BD / strategic alliance

Jul 2017Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos · bangalore

  • Mafiree, a PCI DSS Certified Company, provides managed services for the MySQL database server solutions such as community version of MySQL, MariaDB Percona and Postgres, as well as NoSQL offerings like MongoDB, Cassandra and CouchDB. It also delivers services to manage and monitor Web and application servers, mail servers, caching servers and offers developmental support for the LAMP stack. Basically, it supports everything on top of the LAMP stack. It helps customers to design and re-engineer open source solutions to suit their various changing requirements. It also helps customers to benchmark the solution that is proposed. Apart from all this, it enables customers to migrate their database from Oracle to MySQL/Postgres, from MsSQL to MySQL/ Postgres, from DB2 to MYSQL/Postgres, from RDBMS to MongoDB/CouchDB/Cassandra or from MongoDB/ CouchDB/Cassandra to MySQL/Postgres.
MySQLMariaDBPostgresMongoDBCassandraDatabase Migration+3

Zenify

Manager - BD / SA

Jul 2016Feb 2017 · 7 mos · domlur

  • Managerial position in Sales and Marketing wherein education, experience and skills can be efficiently utilized to increase the sales volume and profitability of the firm. Build a strong distribution network for achieving greater market development by fulfilling the following underlying functions:
  • Leading sales teams to achieve sales objectives.
  • Identifying potential customers in the market.
  • Comparing products and their substitutes based on a range of criteria.
  • Managing the firm’s sales budget and costs – Estimating costs involved.
  • (Alternative Objective Statements):
  • Obtain an executive sales/marketing management position in a growth-oriented company.
  • Utilize business development/sales skills at a progressive organization where these skills can make a significant impact on the bottom line.
  • Obtain a position that will enable use of strong sales skills, marketing background and abilities to work well with co-workers and clients.
  • Use sales and marketing-oriented skills in the best possible way to achieve the company’s sales goals.
  • Source new sales opportunities through inbound lead follow-up and outbound cold calls and emails
  • Understand customer needs and requirements
  • Close sales and achieve quarterly quotas
  • Research accounts, identify key players and generate interest
  • Maintain and expand the database of prospects within the assigned territory
  • Team with channel partners to build pipeline and close deals
  • Perform effective online demos to prospects
  • Promote the company brand to key buyers, ensuring their knowledge is current and appropriate.
  • Generating new business both in face to face meetings and over the phone.
  • Replying to all customer enquiries in a timely and accurate manner.
  • Writing up sales reports, activity reports and revenue forecasts.
  • Completing all documentation and administrative records, fully and accurately.
  • Developing and maintaining a database of all contacts.
Sales ManagementMarket DevelopmentCustomer Relationship ManagementBusiness Development

Azuga, inc.

Senior Business Development Manager

Jan 2016Apr 2016 · 3 mos · Bangalore

  • Azuga is a leading connected vehicle platform, helping our customers turn data about vehicles and their use into intelligence that improves operations and safety while reducing costs and risk. Azuga provides reliable end-to-end solutions for commercial fleets, government agencies, insurance companies and automotive industry suppliers, encompassing hardware, the Azuga One platform, SaaS applications, support and data analytics.

Hcl technologies

Team Leader - Sales / Strategic Alliance

Jan 2015Jan 2016 · 1 yr · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • HCL is a pioneer in the field of Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC). With an established Center of Excellence for GRC consulting, our seasoned practitioners provide strategic insights and advisory services to tackle risk and compliance challenges across the enterprise. Powered by its rich experience, HCL has developed an industry specific GRC solution portfolio that includes business domain and technology expertise, a unique combination which drives a successful GRC program in an enterprise. Our experience inacross various industry verticals coupled with deep domain knowledge has enabled us to create unmatched solution capabilities that in turn has helped our customers reduce exposure and improve governance while proactively managing compliance, leveraging GRC automation platforms.

Dell international services

Senior Sales Analyst

Jan 2011Jan 2015 · 4 yrs · Bangalore

  • Dell empowers countries, communities, customers and people everywhere to use technology to realize their dreams. Customers trust us to deliver technology solutions that help them do and achieve more, whether they’re at home, work, school or anywhere in their world. Learn more about our story, purpose and people behind our customer-centric approach.

Silsan software

Marketing Consultant

May 2006May 2010 · 4 yrs · Greater Madurai Area

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Indore

Executive Sales and Marketing

Nov 2023Jan 2025

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