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# Sachin Kamthankar on Tal

## Headline

Engineering Manager

## About

Principal Database Engineer and Database Architect with 18\+ years of enterprise technology experience, including 12\+ years designing, modernizing, and operating SQL Server and PostgreSQL platforms for Fortune 500 financial institutions and cloud\-native SaaS products\. Specializes in database architecture, performance engineering, cloud database engineering, and high availability\. Led enterprise database modernization initiatives, architected scalable SQL Server and PostgreSQL solutions, and delivered measurable performance improvements of up to 4,874× through query optimization, indexing, and execution plan analysis\. Experienced in leading complex database initiatives from architecture through production deployment while ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and operational excellence\.

## Location

Pune Division

## AI stack

claude code

codex

cursor

gemini

## Work experience

Engineering Manager \- Database Architect at Kantiv, Oct 2025 \- Present · 10 mo, Pune District, Architected cloud\-hosted Aurora PostgreSQL database solutions on AWS to support scalable, high\-availability SaaS workloads\.

Database Architect at Fiserv, Dec 2019 \- Oct 2025 · 5 yrs 11 mos, Pune/Pimpri\-Chinchwad Area

Senior Associate at Cognizant, Jul 2016 \- Dec 2019 · 3 yrs 6 mos, Pune Area, India, SQL DBA cum Developer

Lead Database Administrator at Cognizant, Jul 2016 \- Dec 2019 · 3 yrs 6 mos, Led enterprise SQL Server operations for one of the world's largest Asset Management organizations\.

Software Specialist at Mastek Ltd\., Mar 2007 \- Jun 2016 · 9 yrs 4 mos, Mumbai, SQL DBA cum Developer

## Education

Bachelor’s Degree, CSE, WIT Solapur

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