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Akhil Pavan

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Senior Database Platform Engineer at Crunchyroll, automating AWS database upgrades with a DMS-based rollback mechanism.

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At Crunchyroll India Pvt Ltd, I own operations for Crunchyroll's AWS database fleet across RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, and Elasticsearch. I automated RDS and Aurora Blue/Green upgrades with a DMS-based rollback mechanism.

I built the database observability stack from scratch, with monitoring and alerting that surfaces issues early for engineering teams.

At Mollie B.V, I built an automated MySQL replication provisioning system and Terraform modules using Ansible, enabling zero-downtime multi-regional expansions. I also automated failovers with ProxySQL and MySQL Orchestrator.

Across database and SRE roles, I’ve improved performance, resilience, and operational efficiency. At Workday, custom monitoring improved uptime by 20% and cut false alerts by 50%, while rightsizing reduced AWS spend by 38%.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Database Operations Engineer

Current

Crunchyroll India Pvt Ltd

Mar 2026 - Present (7 months)

Own operations for Crunchyroll's AWS database fleet across RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, and Elasticsearch. Automated RDS/Aurora Blue/Green deployments and built the database observability stack from scratch.

AWS RDS MySQL MariaDB PostgreSQL Aurora DynamoDB Elasticache Elasticsearch Blue Green Deployment DMS Observability Monitoring Alerting

Senior Database Platform Engineer

BettrAI LLC

Aug 2025 - Feb 2026 (6 months)

Cut SQL Server licensing costs by 60% by migrating workloads from Enterprise to Standard Edition. Brought core AWS infrastructure under Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and automated fleet provisioning with Terraform, Ansible, and Python.

SQL Server AWS Terraform Ansible Python Infrastructure as Code Cost Optimization

Database Administrator II

Mollie B.V

Oct 2023 - Jun 2025 (1 year 8 months)

Managed 30+ payment platform database services across Dev, Staging, and Production on GCP. Built a fully automated MySQL replication provisioning system and Terraform modules using Ansible, enabling zero-downtime multi-regional expansions.

GCP MySQL Terraform Ansible ProxySQL MySQL Orchestrator Replication High Availability Automation

Site Reliability Engineer

Workday

Jul 2022 - Sep 2023 (1 year 2 months)

Managed 1000+ servers and petabytes of data across Dev, Sandbox, Production, and DR environments. Built custom monitoring that improved uptime by 20% and cut false alerts by 50% within three months.

Monitoring AWS Python BASH Incident Management Cost Optimization Automation SRE

Database Administrator

FlatexDEGIRO Bank AG

Jul 2021 - May 2022 (10 months)

Reduced database security risks by 90% through advanced monitoring and access policies across 5 MySQL clusters. Lowered storage costs by 40% by migrating reporting workloads to TokuDB/RocksDB.

MySQL Security Monitoring TokuDB RocksDB Performance Optimization Cost Optimization

Systems Engineer – IT (MySQL)

Micron Technology

Jan 2020 - Jan 2021 (1 year)

Managed 50+ MySQL servers with Primary-Primary and Primary-Replica replication. Automated MySQL builds with Ansible, reducing deployment time by 80%.

MySQL Replication Ansible Automation Performance Optimization

Senior Database Engineer

Ebutor Distribution Pvt. Ltd

May 2017 - Jan 2020 (2 years 8 months)

Managed MySQL servers across Dev to Prod on AWS & DigitalOcean. Conducted workload assessments and automated KPI reporting using SQL procedures and views, reducing manual work by 80%.

MySQL AWS DigitalOcean SQL KPI Reporting Automation

Database Administrator

Time Inc India

Oct 2016 - May 2017 (7 months)

Provisioned 20+ MySQL servers in clustered/non-clustered configurations. Improved database performance by 2x via variable tuning and indexing, and built HA environments with RDS/Aurora instances.

MySQL RDS Aurora High Availability Performance Optimization Indexing On call Support

Database Developer

Alacriti Inc

Nov 2014 - Sep 2016 (1 year 10 months)

Developed automation scripts for installations, backups, maintenance, and monitoring. Optimized database performance using indexing and configuration tuning, and participated in Disaster Recovery exercises and capacity planning.

Automation Scripting MySQL Performance Optimization Indexing Disaster Recovery Capacity Planning