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Knoxville, TN, US

Mountain View, CA, US

Helping aspiring database administrators learn the skills needed to succeed in remote work environments.

Austin, Texas, US

SolarWinds is a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT infrastructure management software. SolarWinds acquired VividCortex to extend our database performance monitoring offering to better support technology professionals as they continue to manage the move to hybrid IT environments with applications and databases sitting on-premises and in the.

Ottawa, Ontario, CA

The Director of Open Source Database Practice oversees the teams responsible the remote delivery of Open Source Databases Managed Services around the world, 24/7, 365 days a year. The Director must understand the direction of open source data technologies, leveraging insight and experience from the top technical people in their field, and enable the.

Ottawa, Ontario, CA

As Practice Advocate for the Open Source Database practice at Pythian, I work closely with the VP of Managed Services to define initiatives to ensure the quality of technical delivery and engagement of the MySQL, MongoDB and Cassandra Managed Services teams.These initiatives included developing a technical training framework, improvements to processes to.

Ottawa, Ontario, CA

As a DevOps consultant, I joined a client team to help drive continual improvement for their microservice architecture. Participating in the client's Agile development model, I helped convert various components of their application stack to leveraging Docker containers in development and QA. This effort led to streamlining releases to more closely mimic.

Ottawa, Ontario, CA

As a Principal Consultant for Pythian's Open Source Database Practice, my role is to provide technical thought leadership to ensure our team delivers expert level services to our clients.Responsibilities include: - Provide a technical escalation path for Pythian's MySQL and MongoDB clients - Develop strategies for client environments to plan for growth in.

Ottawa, Ontario, CA

As Lead Database Consultant for one of Pythian's MySQL teams of expert DBAs, I assist the Team Lead in ensuring deliverables are met to the satisfaction of the clients. This includes reviewing action plans for technical detail, performing capacity planning, and providing technical oversight of resolving difficult performance issues. Other responsibilities.

Ottawa, Ontario, CA

As part of a global team of expert MySQL DBAs, I work very closely with our clients to develop an understanding of their environment and needs. We provide recommendations on best-practices in terms of disaster recovery planning, designing high availability strategies, and ensuring proper tuning of client MySQL systems. We develop and design version.

Frankfort, IL, US

Developed an online inventory management system as part of an all-inclusive Dealer website templating engine. My focus was primarily on the importing of vehicles from various sources into our backend.To ensure high availability of the system, I headed up the initiative to migrate our MacOS XServe environment into a CentOS-based LAMP stack on Rackspace.

Developed custom automotive websites for Advertising clientele.