Andrew Francis

With over a decade of IT experience, Andrew Francis is a seasoned Senior Database Administrator, specializing in PostgreSQL for more than 5 years. He brings deep expertise in managing and optimizing databases in high-performance, mission-critical environments. Andrew has led successful implementations of backup and recovery strategies, performance tuning, and replication setups across multiple PostgreSQL versions (9.6–13).

His recent role at Cisco involves overseeing both production and staging environments, enhancing database reliability and performance using tools like PEM, pgBadger, and pgAgent. At Accenture, he managed 100+ PostgreSQL servers, led database migrations, and introduced automation through Python and Bash scripting. Andrew is also skilled in MongoDB administration, including performance tuning and data migration.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Delaware and is proficient with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and MongoDB Ops Manager. Known for his structured approach and problem-solving mindset, Andrew consistently ensures data integrity, system scalability, and minimal downtime.