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title: "Ramamoorthi K - Manager, Data Operations — Database Platform Engineering in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
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# Ramamoorthi K on Tal

## Headline

Enterprise Database Platform Engineering \| SQL Server · PostgreSQL · Lakehouse · HA/DR \| Leading India Data Platform @ LKQ \(Fortune 500\) \| Building AI\-driven DBA automation

## About

I lead the India data platform organisation for LKQ Corporation \(NASDAQ: LKQ, Fortune 500, $14B revenue, 47,000 employees\) — a 22\-member team spanning Database Engineering, Data Engineering, BI/Reporting, and Data Quality/Governance, owning the enterprise data platform for 24/7 operations across North America and Europe\. Twenty\-one years in database engineering, and still in the technology\. I lead from the front: architecture reviews, HA/DR design, production incident resolution, and code\. How I lead: \- Built the function from a solo seat to a 22\-member organisation across five disciplines; promoted 3 to senior roles and mentored 20\+ \- Own the multi\-year platform roadmap \(2024–2027\), approved annually at Senior Director level \- Partner with global stakeholders across US/India follow\-the\-sun operations \- Own the operating model — capacity planning, vendor management, hiring, performance management What I own: \- A multi\-engine estate — SQL Server \(2000–2025\), PostgreSQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch — at hundreds of terabytes, processing billions of row operations daily \- A 100TB\+ Dremio/Apache Iceberg lakehouse running 2,000\+ Spark and Airflow pipelines \- Data governance and compliance \(SOX, GDPR\); Azure database operations and hybrid estate What I've built: \- A fleet\-wide patch orchestration engine — parallel dispatch, per\-server state machine, deterministic rollback — eliminating a manual patch window that consumed entire weekends \- An AI\-augmented diagnostic platform for our air\-gapped estate — Go orchestrator, local LLM inference, MCP tool\-calling across 18\+ diagnostic services, bringing automated triage to a fleet with no external connectivity \- PostgreSQL on OpenShift/Kubernetes — provisioning from weeks to hours \- Led the database workstream of a full VMware\-to\-Hyper\-V migration, near\-zero downtime Track record: \- Scaled operations 3x at 99\.9%\+ uptime for mission\-critical global systems \- 50\+ zero\-downtime migrations \(SQL Server 2008–2025\), including an early production move to SQL Server 2025 \- Reduced incidents 45%; improved MTTR 60%; 100% SOX & GDPR compliance, zero critical findings Technical depth: SQL Server \(2000–2025\) • PostgreSQL • MySQL • Elasticsearch • Apache Iceberg • Spark • Airflow • Dremio • Always On / HA/DR • Kubernetes/OpenShift • Performance Tuning • Data Governance • Azure • T\-SQL • PowerShell • Go Certifications: MCSE \(Data Management & Analytics\) • ITIL Foundation • PG Program in Data Engineering, Purdue University \(2026\) • Professional Certificate in Generative AI & ML, IIT Guwahati \(2025\) 📧 ramgck@gmail\.com \| 📱 \+91\-9980352339

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

claude code

claude

ollama

huggingface

## Work experience

Manager, Data Operations — Database Platform Engineering at LKQ Corporation, Apr 2023 \- Present · 3 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, NASDAQ: LKQ · Fortune 500 · $14B revenue · 47,000 employees · North America, Europe, Asia Reporting to Senior Director, Data Development, Operations & Intelligence Lead a 22\-member database platform engineering organisation \(1 team lead, 11 direct\) owning a multi\-engine estate — SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch — at hundreds\-of\-terabytes scale, plus a Dremio/Iceberg lakehouse at 100TB\+ running 2,000\+ scheduled pipelines\. 99\.9%\+ availability for 24/7 multi\-continent operations\. \- Senior technical escalation point and architectural decision\-maker for the enterprise database platform; own architecture reviews, HA/DR design, and the multi\-year roadmap \- Architected a fleet\-wide patch orchestration engine for 100\+ instances covering Availability Groups, FCIs, standalone servers, SSRS and SSIS \- Led the database workstream of a full VMware\-to\-Hyper\-V datacenter migration, near\-zero downtime \- Designed and built an AI\-augmented diagnostic platform in Go for an air\-gapped environment \- Implemented PostgreSQL on OpenShift \(OKD/Kubernetes\) — provisioning weeks to hours \- Own SLOs, incident/problem/change management; cut incidents 45%, improved MTTR 60% \- 100% SOX and GDPR compliance, zero critical findings

Lead Operations DBA at LKQ Corporation, Apr 2018 \- Apr 2023 · 5 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

SME\-DBA at LKQ Corporation, May 2014 \- Mar 2018 · 3 yrs 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Information Management Senior Specialist at Xerox, Oct 2012 \- May 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bangalore

SME \- DBA at AXA Technologies Shared Services, Oct 2010 \- Oct 2012 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Network Engineer at First American \(India\) Pvt\. Ltd, Aug 2008 \- Oct 2010 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru Area, India

System Administrator at Locus, Nov 2006 \- Sep 2008 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru Area, India

## Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, adhiyamaan college of engineering

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