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Gopinath G

@gopinathg1

Technical Database Lead at Comcast Engineering India modernizing AWS database platforms and strengthening reliability through automation.

India

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At Comcast Engineering India Pvt. Ltd., I provide technical leadership for enterprise database platforms across AWS and on-premises environments. I engineer and support Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS, PostgreSQL, and Couchbase, and lead database modernization and migration initiatives.

I design high-availability and disaster-recovery strategies, including backup governance, recovery validation, and DR drills. I also lead production incident response and drive performance, capacity, and cost optimization.

I build DBA automation and self-service solutions with Python, shell scripting, Terraform, and Ansible, and use Datadog to investigate database health and performance. Earlier, at Cognizant Technology Solutions and Wipro InfoTech, I supported enterprise database administration and production operations.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

DBA Engineer 4/Technical Database Lead

Current

Comcast Engineering India Pvt. Ltd.

Jan 2018 - Present (8 years 9 months)

Provides technical leadership for enterprise database platforms, combining hands-on engineering with architecture guidance, production reliability, risk management, and cross-functional delivery. Leads and mentors DBA engineers through technical reviews, complex troubleshooting, and delivery of database modernization and reliability initiatives.

Technical Lead - Database Administration

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Aug 2014 - Jan 2018 (3 years 5 months)

Led database administration and production support activities, prioritized operational work, coordinated escalations, and supported delivery against service-level commitments. Managed incident, problem, change, risk, and customer communication activities while partnering with technology teams and vendors.

Database Administration Production Support Incident Management Problem Management Change Management Backup And Recovery Patching Replication Access Management

Senior Engineer - Database Administration

Wipro InfoTech

Jun 2008 - Aug 2014 (6 years 2 months)

Provided database administration, production support, monitoring, backup validation, recovery support, user management, performance analysis, and maintenance-window coordination. Worked with L2/L3 teams during priority incidents, analyzed logs and alerts, and escalated critical database, storage, replication, and connectivity conditions.