David Isser

Lead and manage data infrastructure team responsible for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch; reduced infrastructure costs 30%, improved team velocity 40%, and cut MTTR 60% through monitoring and IaC practices.

Architected Flask-based attendance application with PostgreSQL and Alembic; implemented auto-shutdown and cost-saving measures that reduced cloud spend by ~85% during closures.

Implemented database upgrades, real-time migrations, Redis consolidation, Kubernetes cronjobs, and CI/CD for DB changes; enabled zero-downtime migrations and reduced replica outages significantly.

Led containerization of microservices on OpenShift, implemented Terraform across AWS/VRA, and rebuilt CI/CD pipelines, accelerating deployments and standardizing infrastructure.

Managed thousands of databases with automated backups, replication, and deployments; built custom Flyway configurations and authored T-SQL data extracts for regulatory applications.

Maintained Teradata ETL/BI applications and authored BTEQ and Tpump scripts to support legacy data processing and analytics workloads.

Developed PL/SQL jobs and ETL pipelines to load wealth data into an Exadata environment to support analytics and data mining initiatives.

Developed a supply chain metrics data model for Pfizer to provide leadership with actionable operational insights.

Authored technical analysis on Kalman filters for a confidential government study, contributing to advanced operations research efforts.

Grade: 3.65 (Overall), 4.0 (Major)

Activities and societies: Recipient of Dean’s Academic and Northrop Grumman scholarships; Department Honors

Completed a Bachelor of Science with Department Honors in Mathematics and Computer Science, graduating cum laude and maintaining a strong major GPA.