Geoff Winans

• MySQL/Postgres Database Administration
  • Performance Tuning
  • Infrastructure upgrading and planning
  • Capacity planning
  • General schema design
  • Backups and durability planning
• Linux Systems Administration
  • Various flavors, incuding RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu
  • Scripting with Bash, PHP, Python and Ruby
  • GCP and AWS cloud management
  • Terraform, Ansible, Liquibase
  • Light experience with SignalFX/Splunk, DataDog

Dave, Inc (Dave.com) Database Reliability Engineer - Apr 2023 - Current

• Project Planning
• Set documentation standards via style guides
• Monitoring / On-Call duties for all things database
• Projects:
  • Self-service documentation
  • Read-Write splitting
  • Data migration / fix / backfill tooling
  • Automated migrations w/ pt-osc and/or gh-ost

Recharge Senior DBA - November 2021 - February 2023

• Project Planning and Onboarding
• Monitoring / On-Call duties for all things database
• Onboarded Elasticcloud, Redis, Firestore
• Project documentation standards
  • End goal: Be able to point anyone to the documentation for self-service
  • Rebuilt most of the documentation to an improved model/standard
  • Documents were updated for clarity and process

CVS / CareMarkRX Advisor DBA - May 2018 - November 2021

• MariaDB/MySQL Team Lead
• Currently on-boarding MySQL to replace MariaDB
• Capacity planning, monitoring, infrastructure improvement

ADESAMySQL DBA / SysAdmin - March 2016 to May 2018

• Management of MySQL infrastructure
• Overall infrastructure planning for high-availability
• Automation via SaltStack

CWIE, LLC Systems Engineer - Jan 2015 to March 2016

• Management and upgrading of legacy systems
• Planning and implementing upgrades of infrastructure
• Implementation of new Puppet Profiles for various applications
• Virtualizing physical servers (both legacy and more recent systems)
• Management of Dev, QA and Production environment
• Maintainance of many applications through their life-cycle

Iridium Satellite MySQL DBA - Mar 2014 to Dec 2014

• Manage 6 node MySQL Enterprise Cluster
• Upgraded existing cluster from 7.2.8 to 7.3.3
• Manage various other MySQL instances outside the cluster
• Planning replacement of MySQL Enterprise Cluster with MySQL/Galera Cluster
  • For cost reduction and simplification of operational complexity

Unicorn Media, Inc MySQL DBA / Sys Admin - Jan 2012 to Jan 2014

• Managed the MySQL infrastructure from top to bottom
• Led an upgrade drive from 5.1 (Windows) to 5.6 on Linux
• Performance tuned the environment to greater than 10k Queries Per Second per host
• Managed backups, including moving from manual, mysqldump-based to XtraDB/Amazon Glacier
• Began process of implementing Riak as a query string caching engine
• Implemented Nginx as a caching point between our IIS-based Origin servers and CDN end-point. This solved critical performance issues

PayPal, Inc MySQL DBA - Oct 2011 to Dec 2011

• Spent most of the time there waiting on access to be granted so I could begin actually working
• Began documenting the entirely undocumented MySQL environment

Blue Gecko, Inc MySQL DBA - Jan 2011 to Aug 2011

• Managed the MySQL Database infrastructure for various clients. Primarily MySQL with some exposure to Oracle and PGSQL.

GoDaddy, Inc MySQL DBA / Linux Admin - Jan 2007 to Jan 2011

• Managed the large database infrastructure, both customer-facing and internal
• Servers each hosted between 8 and 16 instances of MySQL
• Managed promotion of slaves to masters when a master would fail, planned capacity expansion
• Maintained multiple automation tools (PHP) for handling AUP/TOS violations against customers