Jan 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad · On-site

• Senior Platform Engineering Lead / Database Architect with 15+ years of experience designing, operating, and optimizing mission‑critical SQL and NoSQL data platforms in cloud‑native and hybrid environments. Owns end‑to‑end database architecture, engineering, and operations to enable secure, reliable, and high‑performance applications.
• Deep expertise in SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle; experience with MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Cosmos DB, Redis
• Designs scalable data models, indexing and partitioning strategies, multi‑tenant and sharded architectures
• Leads performance tuning: execution plan analysis, query optimization, caching, and workload/right‑sizing
• Implements HA/DR: Always On AGs, clustering, replication, log shipping, backup/restore, PITR
• Architects and executes large‑scale DB migrations, upgrades, and platform consolidations (on‑prem → AWS/Azure/GCP, proprietary → open source)
• Builds ETL/ELT and integration pipelines with SSIS, ADF, Airflow, dbt, Data Factory, Kafka/Event Hubs
• Drives cloud database adoption using RDS, Aurora, Cloud SQL, Cosmos DB, DynamoDB, Redshift
• Champions DevOps/SRE for databases: CI/CD for schema, automated migrations, infra‑as‑code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep), observability and alerting
• Uses DMVs, Query Store, Extended Events, APM tools to implement monitoring, health dashboards, and proactive capacity planning
• Enforces security and compliance: RBAC, least privilege, encryption, key management, auditing, masking, row/column‑level security (GDPR/PCI/HIPAA/SOC2)
• Leads cross‑functional teams, mentors DBAs/engineers, and partners with Product, Platform, and Cloud teams on roadmaps
• Acts as trusted escalation point for performance issues, outages, and architectural decisions; drives RCA and continuous improvement
• Strong communicator with a documentation‑first mindset (runbooks, SOPs, design docs) and focus on building secure, scalable, and cost‑effective data platforms.