MySQL Database Administrator at TheLadders.com
Greater New York City Area
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- MySQL Database Administrator at TheLadders.com
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- Senior Database Administrator at Hearst Magazines
- Database Administrator at Vonage
- Web Programmer, DBA, Sysadmin at PhoneBase Research
- System Administrator/Web Engineer/Systems Admin at Global Image Technologies
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Gennady Gurov’s Summary
Experience with all sorts of database engines, 24x7 support, Production support, development support and so on.replication, backups, monitoring. My goal is to become an invaluable player in the team that uses databases. I like to get to know the end-users that utilize my services instead of simply shoveling bits, hidden away in the corner. I love talking about databases and all that has to go into making a system scalable, efficient, and resilient to problems. I work well under pressure and very much self-motivated. Databases and anything that has to do with them is my passion. Learning new things about databases is something i strive towards, I am very well-versed in mysql and postgre and have some DBA/programmer experience with oracle. Every database engine has its purposes and uses.
Gennady Gurov’s Specialties:
mysql replication, mysql monitoring, enterprisedb, postgres, postgres replication, slony
Gennady Gurov’s Experience
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MySQL Database Administrator
TheLadders.com
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
January 2008 — Present (10 months)
MySQL database administrator, responsible for maintaining production systems that power the main website as well as internal tools.
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Senior Database Administrator
Hearst Magazines
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Publishing industry)
July 2007 — January 2008 (7 months)
Responsible for the production, qa and development instances of the database housing information regarding online content for the magazines. Installation, troubleshooting, migration, and upgrade of existing and new databases to mysql platform. Growth analysis, monitoring, backups and disaster recovery plans. Read spread via replicated instances.
Recent migration of ecrush.com and espinthebottle.com from Sybase to a replicated mysql cluster with 2 read nodes, 1 write node and 1 backup node has been a success. Working with the developers to implement as much memcached as possible to split constant reads across two servers running four memcached instances on those servers as well as monitoring of the servers. -
Database Administrator
Vonage
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; VG; Telecommunications industry)
September 2006 — July 2007 (11 months)
Over 300 active MySQL databases, 30 PostgreSQL/EnterpriseDB databases, 6 Oracle Databases including two in Veritas High availability cluster. Daily support and monitoring, managing massively replicated MySQL databases, managing Slony PostgreSQL replication, as well as assistance to the development and qa teams with their needs. Long term projects include a monitoring system for MySQL to ease the task of administering a large number of databases. Application that documents the schema and works crossplatform between Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
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Web Programmer, DBA, Sysadmin
PhoneBase Research
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Market Research industry)
May 1999 — September 2006 (7 years 5 months)
* Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP programming and maintenance
* Administration of multiple Linux and FreeBSD servers
* Administration of multiple VPN end points
* Wiring and implementing callcenters
* Infrastructure research and purchasing
* Disaster recovery and backup management -
System Administrator/Web Engineer/Systems Admin
Global Image Technologies
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 1998 — May 1999 (1 year 1 month)
* Linux, Apache, Perl, MySQL, Designing and implementing solution for customers
* Administrating multiple Linux and FreeBSD servers
* Cabling and Tech support
* Disaster recovery and backup management.
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Gennady Gurov’s Interests:
Photography, databases, cars, computers, turbochargers, studio photography, unix administration, snowboarding, racing.
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