Oct 2025 – Mar 2026 · 5 mos · Remote

• Led technical discovery and solution design with Oracle customers, mapping their CDC requirements, validating fit, and guiding end‑to‑end implementation of the Oracle XStream CDC Connector in both Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform environments.
• Articulated how Confluent’s XStream connector outperforms legacy LogMiner‑based solutions and GoldenGate in performance, resilience, operational simplicity, and total cost of ownership, helping customers make confident migration decisions.
• Collaborated with Professional Services and partners as part of a “migration factory” to de‑risk and accelerate CDC migrations from GoldenGate, Informatica, and Confluent’s v1 LogMiner connector.
• Drove customer success by building working demos, supporting POCs, and ensuring production readiness for high‑throughput, low‑latency, no‑data‑loss workloads running in production.
• Enabled go‑to‑market execution by training internal stakeholders and customer teams on XStream topics, including Java 17 support, PDB configuration, SCN tracking, and XStream Out server setup.
• Closed the field feedback loop by sharing detailed technical learnings with Engineering and Product Management, influencing roadmap items such as LOB support, EOS handling, and Exadata compatibility.

Jan 2025 – Oct 2025 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Developed real-time computer vision systems for accident detection, age estimation, and CCTV analytics using YOLO, Qwen-VL, and vision-language models for urban safety and intelligence.
• Built and deployed Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines on Oracle 23ai, combining vector search with LLMs for contextual search, document summarization, and chatbot solutions in healthcare and academic domains.
• Designed hybrid and multicloud architectures using Oracle Cloud and Azure, ensuring cross-platform AI deployment and compliance for enterprise and public sector clients.
• Automated LLM pipelines and system alerts using n8n, orchestrating integrations with Gemini, OpenAI, Google Sheets, Discord, and other third-party APIs.
• Customized and fine-tuned open-source models including Qwen-VL, Mistral, and Whisper for use cases like video summarization, multilingual captioning, and low-latency audio transcription.
• Built and deployed FastAPI-based microservices on OCI, enabling scalable inference for multimodal AI applications including image captioning, object detection, and video analysis.
• Delivered reusable POCs and reference architectures for GenAI, RAG, and multimodal pipelines — selecting optimal models based on quality, latency, and cost trade-offs.

Dec 2022 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Orchestrated Oracle GoldenGate setup and management, ensuring smooth real-time data synchronization with zero downtime.
• Spearheaded the management of customers’ Exadata & GoldenGate environments, resulting in a 20% increase in data transfer efficiency.
• Partnered with application teams for swift troubleshooting and collaborated with Oracle Teams (Sales, Support) to address architectural challenges for major accounts.
• Pioneered automation scripts to streamline repetitive tasks, boosting team productivity by 30%.
• Created an Ansible-based framework to monitor GoldenGate and execute DB scripts across all ExaCC servers, earning the YES Award for Q2 2024 and receiving customer accolades.
• Developed multiple shell scripts to automate tasks and improve operational efficiency.
• Enhanced Python skills with training in OCI Generative AI and explored AI models like Cohere for Natural Language Processing (NLP), OpenAI GPT, and Hugging Face Transformers for automation and data analysis.

Mar 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Managed over 30+ customers in the pre and post-sales journey to Oracle Cloud.
• Influenced over $20M+ deals in pre-sales and cloud consumption.
• Successfully managed multimillion-dollar revenue accounts including a focus on several fortune 100 companies.
• Developed effective solutions and provided technical leadership to engineering teams for post-delivery .
• Building winning solutions and working closely with other technology Specialists in providing solutions based on customer requirements.
• Working alongside project management teams to successfully monitor progress and implementation of initiatives.
• Building demos to show product features, workshops to help partners and customers.
• POC’s to help the customer understand how the product works with a real set of data.
• Providing detailed specifications for proposed solutions including time and scope involved.
• Establishing a framework for necessary contributions from various departments and facilitate their collaboration.
• Ensured client's success with their Oracle GoldenGate endeavours.
• Analyzing current technologies used within the company and developing steps and processes to improve.
• Communicating complex technical proposals convincingly to a wide range of audiences, including customers.

Aug 2018 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Installed and created ASM 11g &12c, DB 11g &12c on IBM AIX 6.5, RHEL 6 servers.
• Strong in Oracle DB Tuning, SQL tuning.
• Installed and configured MySQL on Linux and Windows environments.
• MySQL database backup and recovery strategies and Replication and synchronization.
• Cloning production database to lower environments using backups.
• Expert and highly experienced in Golden Gate setup, configurations and administration. (11g and 12c)
• Expertise in Data Guard Physical Standby setup.
• Performed POC of integrating Oracle DB with SAP DB via Golden Gate for Big data.
• Performed POC of integrating Goldengate for Big Data with Kafka for real time streaming.
• Resolved issues related to gap between prod and standby using archive restoration and incremental backup.
• Regular health check and pro-actively resolving the issues.
• Performing adhoc RMAN backups and restorations.
• Detecting the recurring issues and automating the fix through shell script.
• Coordinating and working with application teams for code deployment.
• Seasoned with ASM and DB patching.
• Troubleshooting and resolving Golden Gate Extract and Replicate issues.

Aug 2016 – Aug 2018 · 2 yrs

• Production support for POS DB(11g) for leading clothing retailer Truworths, South Africa.
• Well versed with database recovery (Media Failure, Tables dropped accidentally, data files, block corruption).
• Creation, deletion and maintenance of users, security privileges and database objects.
• Supporting RMI and Weblogic services.
• Developed bash, shell scripts for automating health monitoring, db backups and housekeeping.
• Experience in Oracle Retail Architecture and Monitoring tools Appworx and Putty.

Feb 2016 – Jul 2016 · 5 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Experienced in Java ,Spring, Hibernate, AngularJS and Twitter Bootstrap.
• Experience in developing test scripts in JUnit & Java in Eclipse.
• Lead of team for designing and Implementing the frontend of Event Management System Project using AngularJS, HTML, CSS and Bootstrap.
• Continuously worked with backend team for successful Integration of Project.
• Extensively used build tool Maven and Jenkins for continuous Integration of changes to the project.