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Christopher Ryan Shaw

@christopherryanshaw

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I build reliable, high-availability database platforms for regulated, high-transaction systems.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to lead database reliability, performance, and data integrity initiatives for mission-critical, high-transaction platforms where uptime, safe scaling, and operational excellence matter.

At Ford Motor, I lead reliability and scalability for high-volume customer-facing databases, designing automated failover, improving transactional performance, and strengthening backup, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.

I've supported regulated healthcare and financial platforms at CVS Health and JPMorganChase, managing SQL Server and MySQL environments, optimizing SQL for sensitive transaction data, and automating monitoring, patching, upgrades, deployments, and migrations.

I bring 10+ years of database operations experience focused on uptime, data integrity, performance, and helping engineering teams scale safely.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Database Engineer

Ford Motor

Nov 2022 - Jun 2026 (3 years 7 months)

Led reliability and scalability for databases supporting high-volume, customer-facing platforms. Designed HA with automated failover, optimized performance, and owned backup, DR, and capacity planning.

PostgreSQL MySQL SQL Server High Availability Backup Disaster Recovery Capacity Planning Indexing Monitoring Mentorship

Database Administrator

CVS Health

Sep 2020 - Oct 2022 (2 years 1 month)

Managed large-scale SQL Server and MySQL databases for healthcare applications with strict compliance and uptime requirements. Implemented monitoring, patching, and automation to maintain high availability and data integrity.

SQL Server MySQL Monitoring Patching Automation High Availability Data Integrity ETL Reporting Compliance

SQL Developer

JPMorganChase

Sep 2018 - Aug 2020 (1 year 11 months)

Developed and optimized SQL for financial data platforms handling sensitive transaction data. Worked with DBAs to identify performance bottlenecks and automated deployment scripts to improve reliability.

SQL Automation Financial Data Reliability

Junior SQL Developer

West Tennessee Healthcare

Jun 2016 - Aug 2018 (2 years 2 months)

Supported database operations, backups, and restores for critical healthcare systems. Built reports and dashboards to provide accurate data to stakeholders and assisted with upgrades and troubleshooting.

SQL Database Operations Backup Restores Reporting Dashboarding Troubleshooting