Aakash Pandhi
Principal - Database Administrator at Sabre Corporation
Principal - Database Administrator at Sabre Corporation
Database Engineer with expertise in Cassandra, Oracle and MongoDB databases. I excel at database architectures,SLAs of databases, build and support database infrastructure, large database migration and upgrades, migration to cloud, devising effective disaster recovery plans, database performance tuning, data modeling,DR drills.   Firm believer in team spirit, detail-oriented with exceptional ability to learn new databases quickly. 

Skills & Expertise:

Cloud: 
AWS

NoSQLs:
Cassandra, DSE, MongoDB, Mongo Query Language, CQL, DSE OpsCenter, Solr

Relational:
Oracle Database, Oracle Grid Infrastructure (GI)/RAC, Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database Upgrades, Oracle Performance tuning (AWR/ADDM), Backup and Recovery using RMAN, Oracle Golden Gate, ASM Management and administration. Physical Standby Database and Active Data Guard.
Sabre Corporation
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Principal - Database Administrator
Texas, United States
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Ciber Global
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Sr. Cloud Database Engineer
Dallas/Fort Worth Area
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Verizon Communications
Cassandra,MongoDB, Oracle DBA and Architect
I was a lead DBA/Architect to manage Oracle, Cassandra and MongoDB databases.  
•	Successfully migrated production databases from old 11gR2 release to 12cR1 with minimal downtime.  *Expanded Cassandra cluster to 3 DCs to support application's HA requirements.  
•	Migrated MongoDB production replicas from old aging hardware to new hardware and built Shards and Replica sets.  
•	Implemented security measures to meet Verizon's corporate security mandates to make databases compliant.  
•	Worked with application team to take full advantage of Oracle partitions to improve query performance on large tables and successfully implemented in production database.  Moved all non-production work-load from on-premises data centers to AWS for all Oracle, Cassandra and MongoDB databases. 
•	Completed POC to evaluate enterprise NoSQL database backup solutions and documented to present to senior management.
Irving, Texas
Verizon
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Sr.  DBA
I was Lead DBA for Verizon's mission and business Critical systems and provided 24/7 on-call support for production and non-production databases. 
•	Supported more than 300  Oracle 12c,11gR2 (11.2.0.3 and 11.2.0.2) and 10g databases running in production environments. 
•	With the help of Oracle I successfully upgraded Exadata from quarter rack to half rack and added additional cell storage, that resulted $15,000 saving in consulting cost to Verizon. Deployed Oracle GG in production databases with DDL support to replicate data from multiple source databases to one large reporting database.  
•	Built DR databases using physical standby feature of Oracle for multiple production databases to meet DR requirements of those database.
Waltham, MA
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Computer Science
Bachelors of Engineering
Gujarat University
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Children
Satsang Temple in Woburn,MA
Teacher
I taught my native language to pass knowledge I possess it to children in temple.
Social Services
Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh USA
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Secretary General
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Oracle Certified Professional
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Puneet Baishya
Oracle Database Administrator
Dallas, TX
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Shrikant Kadam
Database Administrator – Oracle Applications at IBM India Pvt Ltd
Irving, TX
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Abhinav Padhye
Team Lead - Mobility DevOps at IBM
Irving, TX
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Antony Amalraj
Database Administrator Consultant  at TriZetto, A Cognizant Company
Denver, CO
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Venkateswara Prasad Donadula PMI-ACP® CSM® ITIL® SAFe®Agilist
Senior Operations Manager at IBM Corporation
United States
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Prathmesh Kadam
TIBCO BW | IBM DataPower | Disaster Recovery Consultant
Irving, TX
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Raj Ragupatula
Delivery Project Executive at IBM
Frisco, TX
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Saeed Hashmi سعيد اميرالهاشمي
Pursuing Master's Degree in Computational Robotics at Georgia Tech
Houston, TX
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Prashant Dikshit
Informatica Developer
New York City Metropolitan Area
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Anson Becnel
SAP BusinessObjects Consultant at IBM
Baton Rouge, LA
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Sadanandam Vanaparthi
Portfolio Manager at IBM
Alpharetta, GA
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Aamir Chaudhry (OCP)
Serving Government Agency as Database Administrator at Fedscale
Detroit Metropolitan Area
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Roy Nzounkekang
Oracle DBA
Bowie, MD
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Phillip Ellis
Database Analyst
United States
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Nelson Awasum   "Duke of Oracle"
Oracle Database Engineer
Washington DC-Baltimore Area
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George Lavan
Senior Database Administrator at CWRU
Chagrin Falls, OH
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Ravi Varma
Senior Oracle Database Administrator at General Motors
Tempe, AZ
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Isaac Hammond
Tableau Data Analyst and Business Intelligence Consultant
Washington DC-Baltimore Area
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Avnish Sharma
Database Administrator at Edaris Health
Lexington, MA
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Shirwa Hosh
AWS Cloud Engineer |DBA|ComTia Security+
Westerville, OH
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        Aakash is very professional, highly motivated, very methodological and structured person. A very quick learner and capable to handle multi tasks and managing several different databases (Oracle RAC, Cassandra, Mongo) at same time. Aakash is an easy going person and team player, Highly recommended. I wish our path cross again in future.  Brian Kass
      
          



            
              
        
              
  

    
        Aakash is a solid database administrator.  We were glad to have him on our team for Oracle support on many projects.  I'd often reach out to him for Oracle help well after he moved into other organizations within Verizon.  He's a great resource, very reliable and a great person to work with.  Highly recommended!
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Oracle Senior DBA Group
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Sr. Oracle DBA - RAC & ASM Experts
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Verizon-IT-Alumni
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Enterprise Technology and Trends Group
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Oracle MAASIG (Formerly the RAC SIG)
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L.D.C.E. Alumni Association
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