Hey, I'm Akhil Renduchintala

Database Engineer | Cloud Enthusiast | Lifelong Learner

About Me

Hello! I’m Akhil Renduchintala, a seasoned Senior/Lead Database Engineer currently based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. With over ten plus years of rich experience under my belt, I specialize in database management, cloud architecture, and process automation, ensuring that every project I touch runs seamlessly and efficiently.

From a young age, I was fascinated by the intricacies of data and how it powers our world. This passion led me to pursue a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Eluru College of Engineering & Technology, where I honed my technical skills and prepared for a career that mixes innovation with practical solutions.

Professionally, I've had the privilege of working with some of the leading names across various sectors, managing everything from massive server fleets to complex databases. At Mollie B.V in Amsterdam, I currently manage a sophisticated banking database infrastructure with over 30 services spanning development, staging, and production environments. My role involves not only the maintenance of these critical systems but also innovating through automation, using tools like Ansible and Terraform to streamline processes.

I am not only a tech enthusiast but also a passionate cook and an avid badminton player, which I believe play a significant role in maintaining my work-life balance, allowing me to bring a fresh perspective and renewed energy to my professional endeavors.

I'm excited about the potential of data to shape the future and am always looking for new challenges that push the boundaries of what can be achieved. If you're looking for someone who blends deep technical expertise with strategic insight and a proven track record of delivering results, let's connect!

Skills

Databases
MySQL MySQL
MariaDB MariaDB
Redis Redis
RDS/Aurora RDS/Aurora
PostgreSQL PostgreSQL
Configuration Management
Ansible Ansible
Terraform Terraform
Programming
Python Python
Bash Bash
Go Go
Cloud Platforms
AWS AWS
GCP GCP
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
Containerization
Docker Docker
Kubernetes Kubernetes
Observability
Prometheus Prometheus
Grafana Grafana

Experience

Mollie

Mollie

Platform Engineer

Oct 2023 - Present | Amsterdam, Netherlands

Managing Mollie's core banking database and corresponding products with 30+DB services ranging from Dev, Stag and Production.

Developed and maintained fully automated replication solution using Ansible and Terraform to reduce the manual job of spinning and provisioning instances on the GCP environment..

Developed Terraform module to spin-up existing regional databases to support multi-regional without downtime.

Automated Online-Schema changes and MySQL autofailover's end to end


Workday

Workday

Site Reliability Engineer

Jul 2022 - Oct 2023 | Dublin, Ireland

Managed Workday's 1000+fleet of Servers ranging from Dev, Sandbox PROD and DR servers.

Managed Petabytes of Data ranging on 1000+servers.

Developed customized monitoring and alerting mechanism to increase uptime of core services by 20% and reduced false-positive alerts by 50% within 3 months.

Have managed all cloud operations on AWS Aurora across the fleet.

Reduced overall AWS infrastructure costs by 38%.

Automated incident resolution with scripting languages such as Python & Bash.


FlatexDEGIRO

FlatexDEGIRO

Database Administrator

Jul 2021 - May 2022 | Amsterdam, Netherlands

Managed the databases of one of the best Stock brokers in European Market.

Managed fleet of MySQL servers across different evnironments.

Involved and been part of re-design of entire Database Architecture.

Automated the deployment of regular tasks, using Ansible.


Tradebyte

Tradebyte

Database DevOPS Engineer

Feb 2021 - Jun 2022 | Ansbach, Germany

Maintained Trabyte's marketplace MySQL database on the AWS cloud.

Managed fleet of MySQL servers across different evnironments.

Created pipeline to push MySQL binary logs data to ElasticSearch.


Micron

Micron

Systems Engineer - IT MySQL

Jan 2020 - Jan 2021 | Hyderabad, India

Administered and managed 50+ MySQL servers fleet.

Increased database performance by tuning MySQL configuration changes and database queries which helped in performance increase by 2x.

Ensure production data being replicated to all the nodes which are consistent using the Primary - Primary and Primary - Replica concepts.


Ebutor

Ebutor

Lead Database Engineer

May 2017 - Jan 2020 | Hyderabad, India

Administered and managed 5X MySQL server including dev, QA, Prelive and Prod environment's which resides on AWS/DO Cloud.

Conducted workload assessments and devised new operational procedures and metrics.

Defined database management policies and procedures.

Implemented KPI Reports/Metrics by using the inbuilt stored procedures and views by reducing the 80% manual process.


Time Inc

Time Inc. India

Database Administrator

Oct 2016 - May 2017 | Bengaluru, India

Provisioned MySQL instances in clustered and non-clustered configurations of 20x servers.

Increased database performance by 2x by tuning the MySQL variables.

Design and implement high availability environments.

Deploying MySQL instances on AWS Cloud - RDS and Aurora.


Alacriti

Alacriti

Database Developer

Nov 2014 - Sep 2016 | Hyderabad, India

Developed and maintained installation, backup, maintenance and other database related scripts in dev, QA, sandbox and Production servers.

Tracked and monitored database usage for proper capacity planning.

Increased database performance by utilizing configuration changes, adding indexes and profiling.

Conduct and participate in Disaster Recovery exercises.

Projects

MySQL Autofailover Using ProxySQL and Orchestrator

This automation ensures high availability for MySQL clusters by integrating ProxySQL and Orchestrator to handle failures seamlessly.

  • ProxySQL: Monitors nodes and dynamically routes traffic.
  • Orchestrator: Detects node failures and triggers recovery steps.

Languages Used: Bash Script, Python, Ansible

PT-OSC Automation

Developed an automation tool for seamless schema changes using Percona Toolkit’s pt-online-schema-change utility.

  • Pre-checks: Node role, primary key presence, table size, triggers, FK constraints.
  • Execution with replica lag monitoring and MySQL status updates.

Languages Used: Python, SQL, Bash

PT-Archiver Automation

Automation tool for archiving old data using Percona Toolkit’s pt-archiver utility.

  • Pre-checks: Primary key validation, table existence, FK constraints, replica lag monitoring.

Languages Used: Python, SQL, Bash

Multi-Region VM Databases in GCP

Designed and automated multi-region MySQL deployments on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using Terraform modules.

  • High availability, automated backups, secure VPC networking, and IAM integration.

Languages Used: Terraform

Certifications

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Cloud Academy

AWS Certified Database - Speciality

Cloud Academy a QA Company

PCEP

PCEP – Certified Entry-Level Python Programmer

Python Institute

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