Alex Arul Lurthu

Current

Technical Lead DBA (Yahoo Search & Marketing - Rightmedia) at Yahoo! Inc

Past

Technical Lead DBA (Platforms and Infrastructure Division) at Yahoo! Inc
Software Engineer at Infosys

Education

Bharathiar University
Carmel Garden

Recommended

5 people have recommended Alex

Connections

214 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

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Alex Arul Lurthu’s Summary

Database engineer with experience in database administration, system engineering and programming for high traffic websites and platforms. Strong background in requirements gathering and implementation on the Operational front. Have done extensive work in audit/review/implementation to achieve Operational Excellence and SOX compliance for clients. Specialization in Business Continuity Planning and Operations management.

Alex Arul Lurthu’s Specialties:

MySQL,Oracle,PHP,Perl,Java,Nagios, MySQL Proxy

Alex Arul Lurthu’s Experience

Technical Lead DBA (Yahoo Search & Marketing - Rightmedia)

Yahoo! Inc

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

November 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

• Deploy and maintain 250+ MySQL databases
• Perform capacity planning, business continuity planning and backup/recovery procedures
• Plan and implement SOX controls
• Design and implement MySQL systems with scalability and failover controls
Technical Lead DBA (Platforms and Infrastructure Division)

Yahoo! Inc

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

April 2005 — October 2007 (2 years 7 months)

• Promoted from systems engineer to Technical Lead,DBA
• Deploy and maintain 250+ MySQL databases, 220+ Webservers and Midtiers
• Perform capacity planning, business continuity planning and backup/recovery procedures
• Conduct audit/review of Operational aspects and establish/implement best practices to achieve Operational Excellence
Software Engineer

Infosys

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

June 2004 — March 2005 (10 months)

Installed and maintained the Oracle development database.Implemented controller, model and view components using Java, HTML, JSP and Struts. Donned the code reviewer role for all java classes in Results vertical.