About
🔹 Professional Summary As a Principal Database Reliability Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience, I specialize in building AI-powered, high-performance, and self-healing database systems that power business-critical workloads across industries. My journey spans the full evolution of data management — from traditional RDBMS architectures to distributed, cloud-native, and AI-augmented data platforms. I’ve successfully led engineering teams through complex modernization and migration programs, driving initiatives that improve scalability, observability, and cost efficiency. My focus lies in Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE) — where automation, predictive analytics, and performance intelligence converge to make database ecosystems more resilient and autonomous. Currently, I’m deeply involved in integrating AI and event-driven data pipelines (using Debezium, Kafka, and custom telemetry frameworks) to deliver real-time observability and proactive remediation for databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and StarRocks. These innovations have consistently helped and achieve measurable gains in uptime, performance, and operational predictability. I believe the future of data infrastructure lies at the intersection of AI and Database SRE — where systems can anticipate failures, optimize themselves, and continuously evolve with business demands. My mission is to build that intelligent, autonomous database future — one system at a time. 🔹 Key Skills and Technologies AI for Databases – Predictive performance tuning, anomaly detection, and intelligent observability Database Platforms: MySQL, PostgreSQL, StarRocks, Cassandra, ScyllaDB, MongoDB, Aerospike, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis Change Data Capture & Streaming: Debezium, Kafka, AWS DMS, and real-time CDC pipelines Architecture & Design: High-availability, fault-tolerant, and distributed systems for mission-critical workloads Performance & Optimization: Query optimization, indexing strategy, and resource efficiency tuning Cloud Database Services: AWS RDS/Aurora, Google Cloud SQL, Azure SQL, and hybrid on-prem architectures Automation & SRE: Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD for DB changes, automated failover, observability, and alerting stacks Data Governance & Security: Compliance frameworks, access control, encryption, and audit management Leadership: Mentoring cross-functional teams and fostering DevOps and data-driven reliability cultures
Work experience
Founder & CEO at JusDB, Jun 2026 - Present · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Databases at CRED, Sep 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Senior Database Administrator at Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd), Jan 2019 - Sep 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Database Administrator at Mafiree, Aug 2015 - Jan 2019 · 3 yrs 6 mos, India, Working in 24/7 Production Database Administration Support. Installation and configuration of MySQL / MariaDB / Percona servers .
