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• Management of the database platform, ensuring optimal performance and availability while driving efficiency of customer facing services.•Manage a team that built cloud-based solutions, putting a focus on performance, scalability and reliability.• Create and achieve the engineering roadmaps for a cloud database solution.• Recruit and nurture the next generation of technical leaders while promoting a positive culture of lifelong learning and advancement.• Provide leadership to Leads as well as a team of highly skilled Database specialists chartered with accelerating pipeline and ever growing product needs, with dynamic workloads and use-cases.• Lead the way in innovation to impact and improve the competitiveness of the company.• Measure, analyse, track and report key matrices against targets and identify areas of improvement and newer opportunities.• Collaborate with different verticals like Sales, Customer support engineering, Product management, development etc, to continuously contribute towards Product enhancements and increasing product consumption.• Build and nurture relationships with stakeholders / Partners across the globe to drive various enablement and implementation activities on AWS, GCP and AZURE.• Developed an DB autoscaling automation to autoscale DB infra as per system usage.

Responsibilities include:• Hire, retain, and develop a high-performing, diverse and inclusive team.• Provide leadership to a team of highly skilled Database specialists chartered with accelerating pipeline and ever growing product needs, with dynamic workloads and use-cases.• Understanding business requirements and leading technical solution development using NoSQL and RDBMS database technologies.• Measure, analyze, track and report key metrices against targets and identify areas of improvement and newer opportunities.• Streamlined database migration procedures and improved operational effectiveness by putting automation techniques into practice.• Carried out performance tuning activities to ensure high availability and optimise database performance.• Employ analytics, Root Cause Analysis (RCA) endeavours, and established procedures to increase service quality and uptimes inside the company.• Executed on engagement management responsibilities including coordinating scoping and staffing activities, and overseeing delivery in a timeline for delivery engagements.• Architecting backup strategies and exploring new backup Medias.Achievements: • Successfully reduced overall database infrastructure costs by 48% via implementing automation and optimisation strategies, resulting in significant reduction of overall COGS of the SAAS product.• Building a world class team from scratch.• Up skilling team to deliver world class support.

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Responsible for managing all of Visa's NoSQL DB's (Cassandra & Mongodb) and mentor team members.• Manage, support, upgrade and maintain database for off the shelf and internally developed applications, ensure continuous 24x7 operation and availability in support of mission critical business applications.• Write/maintain OS level scripts for DB maintenance as well as for automating other tasks like Database Upgradation, Log rotation, LDAP implementation, Node replacements, Patching etc.• Implement security mechanisms as SSL, TSL and LDAP for Database access as well as on GUI tools.• Set up and configure OpsCenter and OpsManager with Mongodb Agent.• Evaluate Open source tools like Keyhole, Mtools etc for continuous improvement of efficiency in BAU DB operations and presenting the same to higher management.• Onboard new application, help them identify the right database and finally setting up geographically distributed clusters as per applications needs.• Provide technical expertise and hands-on support in consolidation and migration of databases to new hardware and platforms.• Develop and maintain required SOW and Wiki’s.• Participate in regular patching and server firmware upgrades.• Physical implementation of databases, storage structures, high-availability solutions, replication, and disaster recovery solutions.• Proactive and reactive performance analysis, monitoring, troubleshooting and resolution of escalated Level 2 and Level 3 issues.• Regular database capacity planning related to database growth and system utilization, trend analysis, predictive future database resource requirements, and the structured organized reporting of the same.• Work closely with other Infrastructure engineering, product development, business operations, and technical operations to ensure delivery of database services within the SLA's and performance targets.• Adapt business requirements, model data, and develop database specifications, table and element attributes.

Client was an american bank which is one of the largest issuers of store credit cards in the United States.Responsible for- Serving a premier consumer financial services client based out of US.- Manage, build and Mentor a 5 member DB team to carry out Database end to end support, schema design, modeling, enhancement, upgrades, day-to-day activities, etc.- Establishing Database architectures for Performance tuning, high availability & scalability. Support/admin production, development & testing database environments (MS SQL, NoSQL MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.)- Database architectures proposal preparation based on customer/business requirements.- Implemented MongoDB Replica Sets and Sharded environments. Adding, Removing, Rebuilding, - Rebuilding nodes via db.fsynclock() for deployments with more 2TB of sizes.- MS SQL, NoSQL MongoDB, Cassandra database capacity/benchmarking & performance tuning.- Proactive and reactive performance analysis, monitoring, troubleshooting and resolution of escalated Level 2 and Level 3 issues.- High Availability and Scalability architectures design & implementation- Developed scripts for tasks such as upgrades, patching, and failover across DCs. - Develop and maintain required SOPs and Wiki’s.- Interviewing and hiring new talent to build a robust team.- Migrating database from RHEL 6 to RHEL 7 as well as Virtual to physical environments.

Emaratech is a semi-government technical service provider for the UAE government entities I was outsourced at client location which was an UAE Federal Government Entity, Abu Dhabi.- Initially outsourced at client location at an UAE Federal Government Entity in Abu Dhabi.- Managed databases ranging from 50GB to 20TB in size.- Later posted at Dubai and supported Dubai Govt Critical databases.- Providing 24/7 end to end support to the most critical and classified databases. - Worked closely with the client teams on a daily basis to ensure the database performance expectation.- Managing client and parent company leadership expectations. - Set up and troubleshooted Golden Gate Replication, MSSQL Server to Oracle and vice versa. - Creating and managing Cassandra Clusters. Troubleshooting tombstone, compaction.- Experience with JVM optimisations and rolling upgrades.- Proficiency in adding, removing, upgrading, and decommissioning Cassandra nodes and data centers.- Regular database capacity planning related to database growth and system utilisation, trend analysis, - predictive future database resource requirements, and the structured organised reporting of the same.- Making sure Deployments/Releases are executed smoothly without database performance issues.

Administration of NoSQL database (Cassandra) • Configuring and setting up new clusters on geographically distributed datacenters and adding/decommissioning/Removing nodes to the cluster.• Performing Rolling upgrades and Troubleshooting failed nodes.• Troubleshooting and recommending solutions for data modelling and BAU issues.• Working with Application teams to configure and implement new design patterns.• Implementing and adapting to new technologies/tools with ensuring database stability.• Expertise knowledge on Datastax Cassandra (Devcentre, Opscenter, Cassandra –tools, noodtool, CCM, CQL and Datastax Enterprise Edition DSE).• Good knowledge in Datastax Opscenter for visual management and monitoring solution for Datastax Enterprise's.• Expertise in adding/decommissioning/Removing nodes in the live production Cassandra cluster.• Monitored Cassandra cluster using GUI Monitoring tool such OpsCenter.• Expertise knowledge in Cassandra data modelling for production systems.• Good Knowledge in implementing Cassandra multi node cluster in Amazon AWS.• Involved in performance tuning for Cassandra cluster.• Good Knowledge on SSTABLE Loader for streaming the data.• Implemented the repair process using Opscentre monitoring tool.• Good knowledge on CQL (Cassandra query language).• Expertise knowledge in backup and recovery the Cassandra database.• Backup the Cassandra environments based on the requirement. • Restoring the backup from one environment to another environment.• Good knowledge on CLI Monitoring Tool such as nodetool utility.• Interacted with Cassandra CQL using Devcentre.

After getting Campus recruited to SG, I have been administering database of different technologies like Oracle, MS SQL Server, Sybase and Cassandra and working on multiple projects simultaneouslyAdministration of RDBMS technologies like Oracle, MS SQL Server and Sybase.• Performing Patching, Upgrading and Migration of Business critical databases.• Worked in maintenance and support of Oracle 11gR2 RAC, ASM as well as Oracle 12c.• Expertise on database Backup/Recovery strategy (RMAN, Export/Import & Datapump) and Database Refreshing(cloning).• Implementation and maintenance of Mirroring/DataGuard, security mechanisms on the database like auditing..etc.• Analysis of statistics,table fragmentation and performing reorgs and rebuilding indexes and Troubleshooting performance issues.