Senior Cloud & Database Platform Engineer

Akhil
Renduchintala

11+ years of experience designing, automating, and managing large-scale MySQL/MariaDB systems. Building resilient data platforms across AWS and GCP with proven results in performance and cost optimization.

Crafting Digital Excellence

Senior Database Administrator and Cloud-focused SRE with 11+ years of experience in MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and cloud-native database systems. Expert in performance tuning, high availability, and infrastructure automation.

11+
Years Experience
1000+
Servers Managed
99.99%
System Uptime
38%
Cost Reduction

Tech Arsenal

Mastering the tools and technologies that power modern cloud infrastructure and database systems.

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Databases

MySQL MariaDB PostgreSQL MongoDB AWS RDS AWS Aurora Cloud SQL Percona Server
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Cloud Platforms

AWS GCP EC2 RDS S3 IAM DigitalOcean
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DevOps & IaC

Terraform Ansible Jenkins Docker CI/CD Git
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Programming

Python Bash SQL
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Monitoring

PMM Datadog New Relic CloudWatch Elasticsearch
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Database Tools

ProxySQL MySQL Orchestrator Percona Toolkit Replication HA Solutions

Professional Experience

Building scalable systems and leading database infrastructure initiatives across diverse organizations.

Oct 2023 - Jun 2025

Database Administrator II

Mollie B.V • Amsterdam, Netherlands

Managed 30+ core banking database services across Dev, Staging, and Production. Developed fully automated MySQL replication provisioning system using Ansible + Terraform. Created Terraform modules enabling zero-downtime multi-regional database expansions.

Jul 2022 - Sep 2023

Site Reliability Engineer

Workday • Dublin, Ireland

Managed 1000+ servers supporting Dev, Sandbox, Production, and DR workloads. Built custom monitoring systems that improved uptime by 20% and reduced false alerts by 50%. Decreased AWS infrastructure spending by 38% through rightsizing and resource optimizations.

Jul 2021 - May 2022

Database Administrator

FlatexDEGIRO Bank AG • Amsterdam, Netherlands

Administered and optimized 5 MySQL clusters, focusing on performance and stability. Reduced database security risks by 90% via advanced monitoring and access policies. Lowered storage costs by 40% by migrating reporting workloads to TokuDB/RocksDB.

Jan 2020 - Jan 2021

Systems Engineer – IT (MySQL)

Micron Technology • Hyderabad, India

Managed 50+ MySQL database servers across multiple environments. Automated MySQL builds using Ansible, reducing deployment time by 80%. Tuned configurations and queries, improving DB performance by 2x.

May 2017 - Jan 2020

Senior Database Engineer

Ebutor Distribution Pvt. Ltd • Hyderabad, India

Managed MySQL servers across Dev to Prod on AWS & DigitalOcean. Conducted workload assessments and implemented new operational metrics. Automated KPI reporting using SQL procedures and views, reducing manual work by 80%.

Featured Projects

Showcasing innovative solutions in cloud infrastructure and database engineering.

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Cloud Migration Framework

Comprehensive Terraform-based framework for automated AWS infrastructure deployment. Features include multi-region support, auto-scaling, and disaster recovery capabilities.

AWS Terraform Python Ansible

MySQL High Availability Cluster

Enterprise-grade MySQL cluster with automated failover, load balancing, and real-time replication. Achieved 99.99% uptime with zero-downtime maintenance capabilities.

MySQL ProxySQL Orchestrator Prometheus
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Database CI/CD Pipeline

Automated database schema migration pipeline with rollback capabilities, testing frameworks, and approval workflows. Reduced deployment risks and accelerated release cycles.

GitLab CI Liquibase Docker Bash
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Observability Platform

Complete monitoring solution with custom dashboards, alerting, and log aggregation. Provides real-time insights into system health and performance metrics.

Prometheus Grafana ELK Stack Alertmanager
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Secrets Management System

Centralized secrets management using HashiCorp Vault with dynamic credentials, encryption as a service, and automated rotation policies.

Vault Kubernetes Terraform PKI
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Multi-Cloud Backup Solution

Cross-cloud backup and disaster recovery system with automated testing, encryption, and compliance reporting. Supports AWS, GCP, and Azure.

Python S3 GCS Restic

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