Database Engineer & Cloud Architect
Pivoting to Cloud & AI
10+ years of experience building business-critical enterprise databases. Now modernizing infrastructure through AWS and Generative AI.
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Professional Summary
Experienced database engineer (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL) pivoting into cloud infrastructure and AI. Upskilling professional with 10+ years of experience building and tuning large-scale business-critical enterprise databases. Strong background in relational databases, system reliability with hands-on experience in Linux, Unix, Windows scripting and SQL to automate operations and optimize performance.
Expanding cloud skills through the Per Scholas AWS re/Start program combining proven on-prem database-systems best practices and modern cloud services-architectures.
Databases & Cloud
Automation & AI
Career Path
FC Associate (Cloud Systems Exposure)
2023 - PresentAmazon | Atlanta, GA
- Optimize high-volume automated workflows within AWS-powered fulfillment environments.
- Resolve complex system defects to maintain peak sortation throughput.
- Bridge the gap between physical logistics and AWS infrastructure management.
AWS re/Start Graduate
2025 - 2026Per Scholas | Atlanta, GA
Focused on cloud computing, infrastructure automation, and security. Successfully bridged 10+ years of DBA expertise with modern AWS cloud-native services.
Senior Database Engineer
2010 - 2017Ericsson / Sprint | Atlanta, GA
- Engineered and supported 1000's of enterprise Oracle database platforms.
- Implemented high-availability architectures using Oracle RAC and Data Guard.
- Led complex database migrations and data center relocations with zero downtime.
Senior Infrastructure Specialist
2002 - 2010HP / EDS | Atlanta, GA
- Designed and supported large-scale Oracle and SQL Server on UNIX/Linux/Windows.
- Delivered database engineering for mission-critical, 24x7 enterprise systems.
Roll Blog
Thoughts on Cloud Migration, AI Integration, and the future of Database Engineering.
Transitioning from On-Prem to AWS RDS
Lessons learned from a decade of Oracle DBA work while moving to cloud-native managed services.
Read Article →The DBA's Role in the Era of Agentic AI
How Large Language Models and RAG architectures are redefining data management workflows.
Read Article →Automating High Availability with Python
Scripting failover protocols and monitoring in hybrid cloud environments.
Read Article →Get In Touch
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