Senior SQL Server DBA | HA/DR, Performance & AWS
Karthik Menon Neelambaran
Los Angeles, California, USA
11+ years supporting enterprise SQL Server environments. I lead four DBAs and administer approximately 500 production databases, with hands-on responsibility for availability, recovery, performance tuning, migrations, and security.
- SQL Server experience
- 11+ years
- Production databases
- ~500
- DBAs led
- 4
Selected SQL Server work
All projects- SQL Server
SQL Server Migration Toolkit
Scripts that automate migrating SQL Server logins, jobs, credentials, certificates, and database configuration between instances during upgrades and cloud migrations.
T-SQLPowerShellSQL Server Configuration+1 - SQL Server
SQL Server Health Check Toolkit
A collection of T-SQL and PowerShell scripts that check CPU, memory, wait statistics, blocking, backups, and Availability Group health on SQL Server instances.
T-SQLPowerShellDynamic Management Views (DMVs)+4 - SQL Server
SQL Backup Validation Automation
Automation that validates SQL Server backup reliability - not just that a backup file exists, but that it can actually be restored - and reports on the results.
T-SQLPowerShellSQL Agent+2
Database Engineering
SQL Server installs and migrations, performance tuning, indexing, Always On Availability Groups, backup and recovery, encryption.
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS (EC2, RDS, FSx, EKS/ECS) and Azure SQL Managed Instance exposure, Windows Server administration, Databricks workspace management.
Automation
PowerShell and T-SQL scripting for monitoring, maintenance, and migration tasks; Python for supporting tooling.
AI-Assisted Engineering
Using GitHub Copilot and Claude to accelerate scripting and documentation, and experimenting with AI-assisted DBA tooling.