SQL Server Database Administrator
Karthik Menon Neelambaran
Los Angeles, California, USA
SQL Server Database Administrator with 12 years in database roles, leading a team of 4 DBAs across Always On Availability Group clusters, cloud migrations, and production database operations.
I design, operate, and troubleshoot SQL Server environments for production business systems - from on-premises installations to cloud migrations on AWS and Azure. My work centers on keeping databases reliable and recoverable, tuning performance from measured evidence rather than guesswork, and automating the repetitive parts of database administration with PowerShell, T-SQL, and Python. Alongside the core DBA work I've built database CI/CD in Azure DevOps, stood up the monitoring layer across the estate, and moved into data-platform and AI-assisted engineering work where it supports the database side of the job.
Database Engineering
SQL Server installs and migrations, performance tuning, indexing, Always On Availability Groups, backup and recovery, encryption.
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS (EC2, RDS, FSx, EKS/ECS) and Azure SQL/Managed Instance, Windows Server administration, Databricks workspace management.
Automation
PowerShell and T-SQL scripting for monitoring, maintenance, and migration tasks; Python for supporting tooling.
AI-Assisted Engineering
Using GitHub Copilot and Claude to accelerate scripting and documentation, and experimenting with AI-assisted DBA tooling.