Data Architect at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Database Architect at Linkedin
- Past
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- Sr. Database Administrator at SourceForge, Inc.
- Sr. Database Administrator at Zembu Labs
- Database Administrator at Astata
- Database Administrator, Consultant at Innovative Solution Systems Inc
- Consultant at Misc Contract Positions
- Programmer at C-Soft Software House
- Education
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- Fairleigh Dickinson University
- Goa University
- M.E.S. College
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Adi Alurkar’s Summary
13+ years of designing database management systems that handle large volumes of data. I strongly believe that there isn't one database technology that fits all needs. I can take a business, technical problems and come up with creative but practical solutions. "Simplicity" is my mantra. I enjoy the dynamics of smaller companies and groups and am a firm believer in teamwork.
Adi Alurkar’s Specialties:
Creative problem solving, Architect solutions to support High growth needs with strong emphasis on availability and reliability. Deep understanding of various database management system like Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL and DB2. I have developed skills which help me take a business, real world requirement and design a technical solution that can be implemented to suit the environment and infrastructure.
Adi Alurkar’s Experience
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Database Architect
Linkedin
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
March 2006 — Present (2 years 5 months)
LinkedIn is, well LinkedIn, the worlds largest professional networking site with over 11 Million.
I am responsible for the Data Architecture within LinkedIn. I work for the CTO office which defines goals and best practices to support the scalability and reliability needs. The CTO office also acts as the bridge between Engineering and Operations, this includes setting up performance labs and metrics that can be used to ensure that feature sets and releases will scale and deploy without affecting performance and reliability in production. I am also responsible for the architecture to support the disaster/recovery needs and high-availability needs of the databases and data stores that support LinkedIn.
Technical environment: Oracle, Oracle Enterprise Manager, MySQL, Java, KETL, Solaris, OSX -
Sr. Database Administrator
SourceForge, Inc.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; LNUX; Online Media industry)
November 2001 — March 2006 (4 years 5 months)
Sourceforge.net is the worlds largest Opensource repository in the world, it is home to over 100,000 projects and has over a Million registered users. The site served more than a Million software downloads per day and had at least one user come to the site for every country in the world, any given day.
I was part of a small team that supported the production SF.net infrastructure. I was the only DBA in the team and was the primary point of contact for any and all database needs. I worked closely with the QoS team to ensure reliability of service. During the 4+ years at SF.net I witnessed over 4X increase in popularity of Opensource software and site usage growth. A major part of my daily routine was troubleshooting, and problem solving.
Technical environment: PostgreSQL, MySQL, DB2, Linux(Redhat,Fedora), Apache, PHP, OSX -
Sr. Database Administrator
Zembu Labs
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2000 — October 2001 (1 year 1 month)
Zembu was a startup that was developing a on-demand database replication platform. The idea of the system was to push data to the edge of the network and have databases self-populate with relevant and required data. Put simply Zembu was to databases what Akamai is to content.
I worked on different teams within Zembu. I served on the operations team and was responsible to setup a 5 server asynchronous multi-master replication using Oracle replication. On the professional services team I met with customers and translated business requirements into technical requirement and feature requests.
Technical environment: Oracle, PostgreSQL, Solaris, Linux(Debian), Windows, ER-Studio -
Database Administrator
Astata
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 1999 — September 2000 (1 year)
Astata was a startup that initially worked on a contract to develop a web-based community application for students. Astata eventually moved into a niche market of writing web-apps and apps for wireless devices. They had some of the first apps targeted for the Blackberry.
I inherited a in-efficiently designed database that had to be re-engineered such that the monolithic database would be split into multiple databases with data flowing between the databases via replication. The redesign has to take into consideration privacy requirements. I also investigated and acquired tools to monitor, troubleshoot Oracle.
Technical environment: Oracle, Linux, Windows, ASP, Quest Instance Monitor, Quest spotlight, Quest SQLXpert. -
Database Administrator, Consultant
Innovative Solution Systems Inc
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1998 — September 1999 (1 year 9 months)
ISS was a boutique consulting firm that placed technical consultants at the Big 5 financial institutions in the NY metro area.
As a consultant I worked closely with the team of in-house DBA’s providing assistance in operational tasks like backup/restore, disaster/recovery planning etc. I was also responsible to investigate ways and means to improve performance of the databases. I owned the testing/development environments and worked very closely with developers to help them tune SQL.
Technical environment: Oracle, Windows, Unix -
Consultant
Misc Contract Positions
(Information Technology and Services industry)
June 1995 — December 1997 (2 years 7 months)
Consulted with various organizations. Responsibilities included software development, systems design. Working with a wide spectrum of customers and systems helped me understand my strengths and weaknesses and helped me focus in on Database technologies and implementations. I work on SQL development, modeling, scripting for backup/restore and SQL tuning.
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Programmer
C-Soft Software House
(Information Technology and Services industry)
May 1994 — May 1995 (1 year 1 month)
C-Soft was a small custom software development shop.
I was responsible to study customer requirement to develop payroll system. This is the first time I
used databases to store data into in the real world.
Technical environment: FoxPro, DBASE, Windows, DOS
Adi Alurkar’s Education
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Fairleigh Dickinson University
M.S, Management Information Systems, 1998 — 2000
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Goa University
B.S, Computer Science, 1995 — 1999
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M.E.S. College
HSSC, Majoring in Science, 1991 — 1993
- Activities and Societies:
- Served as the General Secretary of the Student Government.
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Adi Alurkar’s Interests:
Learning Samskrita, New technology, Movies, Music
Adi Alurkar’s Groups:
SFPUG, Mt. Madonna Center, Gondavalekar Maharaj
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