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Ankitaa Vaidya

Application Consultant at Extenda Retail | Cloud Applications, Backup & Recovery Systems

Mumbai

7+ years of work experience

Extenda Retail
Sep 20254 mosDec 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Designed and implemented secure, scalable database models. • Collaborated closely with clients and development teams to optimize database structures, and improve execution plans for bett er performance. • Monitored database performance using DMV’s, SQL Server Profiler, and implementing tuning strategies. • Assisted in cloud exposure, gained foundational experience with Google Cloud services by supporting data integration and analytics use cases aligned with SQL based workload. • Assisted in the AI/ML model deployment design and deployment using Google Cloud Vertex AI and BigQuery ML • Integrated AI models via APIs and Cloud Functions.
Capgemini
Nov 20231 yr 11 mosSep 2025

Pune District, Maharashtra, India

• Lead database migration and upgrade projects initiatives (on-prem to cloud and version upgrades) ensuring minimal downtime and maintaining data integrity through validation checks and rollback strategies. • Designed and implemented secured and scalable database solutions. • Collaborated closely with clients and development teams to optimize database structures, and improve execution plans for better performance. • Proactively monitored database health and performed performance tuning and optimization. • Implemented and supported High Availability solutions including Always On Availability Groups, Log Shipping, and failover clustering testing and ensuring data synchronization across replicas. • Managed database security audits, permissions and activity monitoring. Installation, configuration, monitoring, performance tuning, backup/recovery, and maintenance.
Aditya Birla Capital
Jan 20221 yr 9 mosSep 2023

Pune District, Maharashtra, India

• Managed Production, UAT and test environment, ensuring high availability, stability and adherence to SLAs by performing regular health checks, deployments. • Installed, configured, and upgraded Microsoft SQL server version 2007, 2019, and 2022, including instance setup, patching and post installation configuration as per standards. • Configured and maintained database Mail, SQL server agent jobs, alerts, and maintenance plans for automated backups, index maintenance, and routine database health tasks. • Diagnosed and resolved performance issues such as blocking, deadlocks, and high CPU/memory utilization. • Owned end-to-end database administration lifecycle for assigned production environments- Installation, configuration, monitoring, performance tuning, backup/recovery, and maintenance. • Maintained server documentation proactively monitored disk space and database growth, and ensured optimal resource utilization.
Indiabulls Group
Jul 20183 yrs 7 mosJan 2022

Pune District, Maharashtra, India

• Managed and resolved production incidents and service requests through ticketing tools like JIRA, ensuring timely resolution within SLAs and maintaining detailed documentation of issues and fixes. • Performed in-depth root cause analysis (RCA) for recurring and critical performance issues. • Executed regular database maintenance activities including index rebuild/ reorganization, statistics updates, database integr ity checks (DBCC), and backup management to ensure optimal performance. • Successfully managed 60+ production changes via ticketing and deployment workflows, and resolved 80+ critical incidents/service requests within defined SLAs.
Veeraraghavan & Co.
Jan 20187 mosJul 2018

Pune District, Maharashtra, India

• Supported database performance optimization and backup strategies by analyzing workloads, tuning queries and indexes, and implementing robust backup plans (full, differential, and log backups) to ensure data recovery and minimal downtime. • Monitored overall system health, managed security access controls by configuring logins, roles, and permissions while ensurin g policies and requirements.

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Education

SYMBIOSIS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Banking, Corporate, Finance, and Securities Law

SYMBIOSIS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

20182 yrs2020
Mumbai university

Bachelor's Degree

Mumbai university

20103 yrs2013

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Headline

Application Consultant at Extenda Retail | Cloud Applications, Backup & Recovery Systems

About

Experienced MS SQL Server DBA with 8 years of hands-on experience to manage large-scale production environments, ensuring high performance, availability, and data integrity. Strong expertise in troubleshooting critical production issues. Experienced in implementing and managing High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HADR) solutions. Recognized as a Subject Matter Expert (SME), providing L2/L3 support, root cause analysis (RCA).

Location

Mumbai

AI stack

gemini

hugging face

ollama

openai

Work experience

Application Consultant at Extenda Retail, Sep 2025 - Dec 2025 · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Designed and implemented secure, scalable database models. • Collaborated closely with clients and development teams to optimize database structures, and improve execution plans for bett er performance. • Monitored database performance using DMV’s, SQL Server Profiler, and implementing tuning strategies. • Assisted in cloud exposure, gained foundational experience with Google Cloud services by supporting data integration and analytics use cases aligned with SQL based workload. • Assisted in the AI/ML model deployment design and deployment using Google Cloud Vertex AI and BigQuery ML • Integrated AI models via APIs and Cloud Functions.

Senior Consultant at Capgemini, Nov 2023 - Sep 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, • Lead database migration and upgrade projects initiatives (on-prem to cloud and version upgrades) ensuring minimal downtime and maintaining data integrity through validation checks and rollback strategies. • Designed and implemented secured and scalable database solutions. • Collaborated closely with clients and development teams to optimize database structures, and improve execution plans for better performance. • Proactively monitored database health and performed performance tuning and optimization. • Implemented and supported High Availability solutions including Always On Availability Groups, Log Shipping, and failover clustering testing and ensuring data synchronization across replicas. • Managed database security audits, permissions and activity monitoring. Installation, configuration, monitoring, performance tuning, backup/recovery, and maintenance.

SQL Database Consultant at Aditya Birla Capital, Jan 2022 - Sep 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, • Managed Production, UAT and test environment, ensuring high availability, stability and adherence to SLAs by performing regular health checks, deployments. • Installed, configured, and upgraded Microsoft SQL server version 2007, 2019, and 2022, including instance setup, patching and post installation configuration as per standards. • Configured and maintained database Mail, SQL server agent jobs, alerts, and maintenance plans for automated backups, index maintenance, and routine database health tasks. • Diagnosed and resolved performance issues such as blocking, deadlocks, and high CPU/memory utilization. • Owned end-to-end database administration lifecycle for assigned production environments- Installation, configuration, monitoring, performance tuning, backup/recovery, and maintenance. • Maintained server documentation proactively monitored disk space and database growth, and ensured optimal resource utilization.

SQL Database Administrator at Indiabulls Group, Jul 2018 - Jan 2022 · 3 yrs 7 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, • Managed and resolved production incidents and service requests through ticketing tools like JIRA, ensuring timely resolution within SLAs and maintaining detailed documentation of issues and fixes. • Performed in-depth root cause analysis (RCA) for recurring and critical performance issues. • Executed regular database maintenance activities including index rebuild/ reorganization, statistics updates, database integr ity checks (DBCC), and backup management to ensure optimal performance. • Successfully managed 60+ production changes via ticketing and deployment workflows, and resolved 80+ critical incidents/service requests within defined SLAs.

Processing Analyst at Veeraraghavan & Co., Jan 2018 - Jul 2018 · 7 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, • Supported database performance optimization and backup strategies by analyzing workloads, tuning queries and indexes, and implementing robust backup plans (full, differential, and log backups) to ensure data recovery and minimal downtime. • Monitored overall system health, managed security access controls by configuring logins, roles, and permissions while ensurin g policies and requirements.

Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Banking, Corporate, Finance, and Securities Law, SYMBIOSIS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Bachelor's Degree, Mumbai university