Apr 2018 – Jul 2022 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• I am currently working as Staff Engineer at LinkedIn in the MySQL SRE team. Our team's mission is to provide MySQL as a service to all the internal and site-facing applications with 99.99% availability, globally replicated and secure.

May 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Sr Database Engineer at LinkedIn

Oct 2015 – May 2016 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Redesigned the systems to scale to 10x.
• Architect the databases for new games.
• Designed plan to migrate hundreds of servers to AWS.
• Implemented multi-cloud strategy with optimal costs.
• Implemented change control and configuration management policies.
• Defined Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for all the database tasks.

Sep 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr · India

• Handling MySQL Consulting and Remote DBA operations and collaborating closely with the clients to evolve the managed services offering.
• Setup the tools to onboard clients.
• Provide coordination, analysis, design, implementation and administration of database solutions to the clients.
• Analyze client’s infrastructure and process and recommend best practices to clients.
• Perform database audit with written report every 6 months.
• Develop automation tools to easily carry out the day-to-day operations.
• Help clients in moving their infrastructure across cloud providers.

Jan 2013 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Provide recommendations to clients including performance tuning, query optimization, upgrades, hardware, HA, backup and recovery etc.
• Participate in pre-sales activities such as proposal preparation, tech calls, pre-sales visit to client sites.
• Prepare and review client status and incident reports on a recurring basis.
• Proactive monitoring to head off potential issues before they become incidents.

Dec 2012 – May 2016 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Independent consultant helping clients globally in scaling their databases.
• Undertake corporate training on MySQL and related technologies.
• Help in hiring by writing job roles/responsibilities, conducting interviews etc.

Jul 2008 – Dec 2012 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Member of center of excellence team for MySQL, which provides horizontal support for all MySQL databases across Yahoo! Design, Deploy and Manage scalable MySQL infrastructure for core properties and platforms of Yahoo! which includes RightMedia Exchange, Finance, Flickr etc.
• Facilitate installation, configuration, upgrades and schema deployment with minimum downtime.
• Interact with development and service engineering teams to ensure the overall application design is optimal.
• Plan and implement SOX controls.
• Undertake MySQL training and development activities.

Jul 2008 – Apr 2010 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Service Engineer (renamed as SRE) Yahoo! Search Marketing and Ad Data pipeline systems.