Jun 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos

Aug 2016 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Extremely hands on in all aspects of database administration, as well as manage a team of database administrators. Strong team-builder, adept at assembling and motivating cross-functional teams to complete complex projects ahead of schedule and under budget.
• Responsibilities
• Drives day to day operations and work plan allocation/management.
• Effective management of employee performance including appraisals, support, training and discipline
• Participate in business meetings with various stake holders.
• Development and implementation of practical continuous improvement processes
• Planning and management of resources to consistently meet production, quality and cost goals
• Resolution of critical issues in a time-sensitive environment using excellent analytical skills

Aug 2015 – Mar 2026 · 10 yrs 7 mos

• Lead & Mentor a 20+ member SRE/DBA team ensuring 24x7 availability of 1,000+ production databases across Oracle RAC, Couchbase, and GCP-managed systems (Cloud SQL, Spanner, Firestore, Redis).
• Champion SRE practices — structured incident management, blameless postmortems, RCA workflows, and tiered on-call rotations with runbooks — driving an 80% reduction in incident volume (18,000 → 2,200/quarter).
• Define and operationalize SLIs and reliability targets across the database estate, creating error-budget headroom to shift teams from reactive firefighting to proactive reliability engineering.
• Build and operate monitoring, alerting, and auto-healing automation enabling proactive anomaly detection ahead of user impact and reducing MTTR across production services.
• Direct cloud-native migration of 1,500+ databases to GCP and AWS, architecting for fault tolerance, high availability, disaster recovery, and distributed system resilience.
• Lead toil elimination using Terraform, Ansible, Python, and CI/CD pipelines — achieving a 50% reduction in patching time and automating provisioning, health checks, and deployment workflows end-to-end.
• Drive database cost optimization (Spanner sizing, logging, cleanup), delivering up to 70% reduction in monthly cloud spend while maintaining SLA commitments.
• Partner with Google to co-lead a Gemini-powered observability initiative; co-host Database Day (100+ attendees) covering Cloud SQL, Spanner, AlloyDB, and AI-driven monitoring and tracing.
• Enforce PCI DSS 4.0 compliance across database infrastructure; collaborate with security teams on audit controls, access governance, and deployment rigor across cloud environments.
• Establish KPI frameworks, sprint-level delivery tracking, and engineering accountability structures; conduct performance reviews aligning individual goals with organisational reliability objectives.

Aug 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr

• Responsible for the technical and administration aspects of the Oracle Database. Provide technical support at as specialist. Subject matter expert for the Oracle database to application dev teams. Provide consulting on planning, architect and implementation for Oracle databases, also mentor and train DBAs on new technologies.
• Manage DBA resources, assign monitor and mentor dba on DBA changes and incidents.

Feb 2015 – Aug 2015 · 6 mos · Bangalore Area, India

• Responsible for the technical and administration aspects of the Oracle Database. Provide technical support at L3 level as specialist. Subject matter expert for the Oracle database to application dev teams. Provide consulting on planning, architect and implementation for Oracle databases also mentor and train DBA on new technologies.
• Responsibilities
• Manage around 800 instances of Oracle (10g, 11g and 12c).
• Maintain databases, tuning query performance, configure maintain and tune disaster recovery solutions.
• Create physical standby database and configure fast start failover.
• Trouble shoot data guard, physical and logical standby databases.
• Mentor Junior DBA
• Troubleshoot GI and RAC databases.
• Create shell scripts to automate various database related activities.
• Development of web based interfaces for Oracle databases using APEX

May 2006 – Jan 2015 · 8 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore, India

• Subject Matter Expert for the Oracle database certifications like Oracle Certified master (OCM), Oracle certified professional (OCP) and Oracle certified Expert (OCE).
• Responsibilities
• Manage Oracle (10g ,11g and 12c) production and development databases.
• Maintain databases supporting OCM scoring, creating users, tuning query performance, maintain database objects.
• Database installs and configurations, Grid Infrastructure 11g and RAC (10g, 11g and 12c) install and configuration.
• Create physical standby database and configure fast start failover, trouble shoot data guard, physical and logical standby databases.
• Troubleshoot GI and RAC databases.
• Create shell scripts to automate various database related activities.
• Development of web based interfaces for Oracle databases using APEX
• Tech-lead for Oracle Certified Professional exams for Oracle database 12c.
• Develop certifications for Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g and 12c databases (OCA, OCP).
• Develop specialist/expert level certification exams for Oracle 11g RAC, Exadata and Data Guard Oracle 12c in collaboration with SME’s.
• Additional professional activities in Current profile
• Imparted training to internal employees on the following courses:
• Oracle database 11g and 12c New Features,
• Oracle database 11gR2 Grid and RAC
• Oracle Exadata DB Machine
• APEX
• Oracle database 11g Data Guard
• Review Oracle University Courses
• Conducted workshops for Oracle University Sales Reps
• Developed APEX applications to automate processes for Oracle University
• Provided consulting to other teams in Oracle University on database related issues

May 2001 – May 2006 · 5 yrs

• Oracle DBA instructor. worked closely with Govt. oraganisations Like DRDO, SCL, ISRO etc. Given Onsite and Offsite instructions