SQL Server DBA

I’m a SQL Server Database Administrator with 6+ years of experience managing mission‑critical databases across on‑premises SQL Server, Azure SQL, and AWS RDS environments. My core story is about owning 24/7 production systems, consistently delivering 99.99% uptime while driving measurable improvements in performance, cost, and reliability. ​

What makes me unique is the combination of deep HADR and cloud expertise with strong automation and governance. I’ve architected and supported Always On Availability Groups, Failover Clustering, Log Shipping, and Database Mirroring in hybrid environments, and led zero‑downtime migrations of 15+ databases to Azure SQL Managed Instance, cutting infrastructure costs by around 35%. On the operations side, I routinely optimize slow workloads using execution plans, indexing, statistics, and Query Store, achieving up to 40% application performance gains and 30% lower response times. ​

I also treat reliability and compliance as first‑class goals. I design and test robust backup and recovery strategies with PITR, automate daily maintenance with PowerShell and T‑SQL (reducing manual DBA effort by about 25%), and implement security controls like TDE, RBAC, RLS, and auditing to meet GDPR and HIPAA requirements with zero compliance gaps. Finally, I act as a partner to operations and audit teams through ServiceNow, RCA, and detailed documentation, helping reduce repeat critical incidents and making complex database environments easier to operate and scale.