MySQL/AWS Subject Matter Expert in the design, implementation and operations of cloud-aware and cloud-native applications

• Delivering MySQL performance tuning, configuration optimization and benchmarking of applications
• Supporting cloud-native AWS solutions with RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, RedShift and supporting data technologies
• Implementing high availability database clusters using MySQL replication, Galera, NDB and Tungsten
• Designing integrated data architecture solutions with RDBMS, NoSQL, big data and analytics technologies

Experienced AWS & OpenStack cloud architect

• Delivering automated and scalable solutions to meet growing business needs
• Migrations of in-house or other cloud applications to AWS
• Increasing developer and operations productivity

Strong technical skills with SQL, Python, Terraform, Java, PHP, Git, Chef/Ansible, Unix/Linux, Redis/MongoDB/Memcached/NoSQL and Oracle

• OpenStack core contributor and reviewer for the common libraries Oslo project (Python/Git/CI/CD)
• Author of the New Relic MySQL plugin (Java)
• Highly proficient with Agile development methodologies including eXtreme Programming (XP)