Akhil Renduchintala | Cloud & Database Engineer

About Me

Hello! I’m Akhil Renduchintala, a seasoned Senior/Lead Database Engineer based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. With over ten plus years of experience, I specialize in database management, cloud architecture, and process automation.

At Mollie B.V., I currently manage sophisticated banking database infrastructure with over 30 services. My role involves not just maintenance, but seamless innovation through automation using tools like Ansible and Terraform.

I'm fascinated by the intricacies of data and how it powers our world. Outside of tech, I'm a passionate cook and an avid badminton player, maintaining a healthy work-life balance that keeps my perspective fresh.

Technical Arsenal

Tools and technologies I use to build resilient systems.

Databases

MySQL

MariaDB

Redis

RDS/Aurora

PostgreSQL

Cloud

AWS

GCP

Digital Ocean

DevOps & IaC

Ansible

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Scripting

Python

Bash

Go

Observability

Prometheus

Grafana

Journey So Far

Mollie

Platform Engineer

Oct 2023 - Present

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Managing Mollie's core banking database infrastructure with 30+ DB services across multiple environments.
Architected a fully automated replication solution using Ansible & Terraform, eliminating manual provisioning on GCP.
Developed Terraform modules for zero-downtime multi-regional database scaling.
Automated End-to-End Online-Schema changes and MySQL autofailovers.

Workday

Site Reliability Engineer

Jul 2022 - Oct 2023

Dublin, Ireland

Managed a massive fleet of 1000+ servers supporting PB-scale data.
Boosted core service uptime by 20% through customized monitoring and alerting.
Reduced AWS infrastructure costs by 38% via resource optimization.
Lead cloud operations for AWS Aurora across the fleet.

FlatexDEGIRO

Database Administrator

Jul 2021 - May 2022

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Managed databases for a leading European stock broker.
Played a key role in the redesign of the entire Database Architecture.
Automated routine deployment tasks using Ansible.

Previous Roles

Database DevOps Engineer @ Tradebyte

Feb 2021 - Jun 2022 | Germany

Systems Engineer @ Micron

Jan 2020 - Jan 2021 | India

Lead Database Engineer @ Ebutor

May 2017 - Jan 2020 | India

Database Roles @ Time Inc. & Alacriti

2014 - 2017 | India

Featured Projects

MySQL Autofailover w/ ProxySQL

Automated high availability for MySQL clusters. Integrates ProxySQL for traffic routing and Orchestrator for failure detection and recovery.

Bash Python Ansible

PT-OSC Automation

Seamless schema change automation using Percona Toolkit. Includes robust pre-checks (triggers, FKs) and live replica lag monitoring.

Python SQL

PT-Archiver Automation

Automated archival strategy for stale data using PT-Archiver. Ensures data pruning without performance degradation.

Python Bash

Multi-Region GCP Databases

Terraform modules for easy spin-up of multi-region MySQL deployments. Includes VPC peering, IAM, and automated backup strategies.

Terraform GCP

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect – Associate

Amazon Web Services

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner