Mar 2019 – Dec 2025 · 6 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Leading the team that builds and operates MySQL as a platform in LinkedIn
• Built a server engineering pillar and team, that owns the MySQL codebase and develops features like Auth Plugin, CDR enabled cross colo replication, QPS quotas, bulk transaction throttling etc, for better security and supporting true multi-tenancy.
• Designed and led the effort for the continuous OS upgrades for the entire MySQL fleet
• Leading the team that is building the next-gen HA for MySQL failovers
• Making the strategy and roadmap for the features required for the scalability and reliability of the MySQL fleet.
• Leading the migration from Oracle to MySQL for some of the most intensive site-facing use cases

May 2018 – Mar 2019 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Apr 2016 – Apr 2018 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Have been involved in creating process workflows for the team. Tuning and capacity planning of databases. Leading the team of MySQL and NoSQL DBAs. Working on the innovation and automation through in-house platform development. Various POCs and benchmarks for accommodating better scalability and concurrency of databases. Cost optimization, monitoring frameworks and High Availability of all datastores.

Jun 2015 – Apr 2016 · 10 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Leading a team of motivated DBAs to ensure high availability of Payments platform databases, performance and optimization, capacity planning, migrations between data centres. Involved in data architecture strategy for new features, and improving upon existing ones. Several automations were done to remove manual procedures and smoothen out day-to-day tasks of DBAs. Involved in giving tranings to Engineering teams on Cassandra.

Sep 2013 – May 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Involved in designing to implementing solutions related to databases and caching, plan for HA, capacity planning, outage handling, and automating tasks using shell and python. Was involved in the architectural design and application flow of Holaa – Caller Id by Nimbuzz.

Apr 2012 – Aug 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Administering and monitoring highly transactional databases, with multiple master-slave replications. Responsibilities include dealing with outages and maintaining high availability of all the databases. Responsible for the strategy and migration of databases to the private cloud. Also involved in various development activities.

Nov 2008 – Mar 2012 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• As a team lead, responsibilities included proper work allocation and time-management, while still doing all the developmental and DBA work. Leading a team which was working on a new project of Global Scoring of patents, which includes mammoth data normalizations across different jurisdiction’s data, and then scoring around 40 mn patents.

Jun 2006 – Nov 2008 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• Lab on Hire, Daimler Chrysler Services IT, Milton Keynes, UK.
• The LoH team of Daimler Chrysler Services IT has been created for the purpose of handling various development projects, referred to as work packets. Worked on various development projects as a developer of the Lab on Hire team.