Ayo Ajayi

Role: Database Administrator at Walmart
Location: Clarksville, TN, US
LinkedIn followers: 500 followers

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About Ayo Ajayi

I am a Senior SQL Server Database Administrator with 9 years of enterprise experience architecting, stabilizing, and optimizing high-availability database platforms across on-premises and cloud environments.I specialize in designing resilient, secure, and performance-driven SQL Server ecosystems that support multi-terabyte databases, mission-critical applications, and high-transaction workloads. My focus is on ensuring uptime, performance scalability, automation maturity, and long-term operational stability.Core Expertise:• Always On Availability Groups, Log Shipping, Replication• High Availability & Disaster Recovery Strategy (RTO/RPO alignment)• Advanced Performance Tuning & Query Optimization (30–50% improvements)• Zero-downtime upgrades and cross-version migrations (2016 → 2022)• Automation using PowerShell & DBATools• Enterprise Security: TDE, RBAC, Auditing, Encryption• Azure SQL Database & AWS RDS administration

Experience

Database Administrator
Walmart
Sep 2020 — Present
Manage and optimize 400+ SQL Server instances across production, QA, and development• Architect and support Always On AG & Log Shipping solutions (99.95% uptime)• Improve transactional throughput 30–50% via query tuning and indexing strategies• Design DR strategies for multi-terabyte databases (up to 5TB) aligned with strict RTO/RPO• Automate patching, monitoring, backups, and inventory using PowerShell & DBATools• Troubleshoot replication latency, deadlocks, blocking chains, and failover issues• Support 50+ annual production deployments with zero rollback events

Education

University of Ilorin, Nigeria
Bachelor's degree, Statistics
Austin Peay State University
Master's degree, Computer Science
University of Ilorin, Nigeria
Master of Business Administration - MBA

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Current company

Razorpay

Software Development · 4K employees · Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Power your finance, grow your business. Razorpay is India’s first full-stack financial solutions company. We are on a mission to enhance the payment experience of over 300 million end consumers. And in doing so, we aim to enable Indian businesses - big and small - accept payments digitally with minimal effort and maximum ease. Razorpay has grown from being a payment gateway provider to a solutions-driven organization boasting of an extensive products suite to accept and disburse payments as well as raise capital and park money. In a nutshell, we fit into every nook and corner where your business touches money. #OutgrowOrdinary We identify ourselves as disruptors in the digital payments space and our vision is to power the financial ecosystem for other disruptors. Like attracts like and Razorpay actively looks to partner with established companies and startups that have either broken the glass ceiling in their industry or are set to. The Razorpay Product Suite today comprises verticals, along with Payment Gateway, like Payment Links, Payment Pages, Subscriptions, Smart Collect, Route, Razorpay Capital, RazorpayX, Payroll and Thirdwatch. Razorpay was started in 2014 by two IIT Roorkee alumni, Harshil Mathur and Shashank Kumar. Just a short few years later, Razorpay has evolved into a 800-odd strong organization with some of the best talents in the country helping some of the best companies manage their money movement seamlessly. Certified cool We are a bunch of spirited, ambitious and fun folks. And no, we’re not saying this ourselves--leading institutions have recognized Razorpay for the high trust and high-performance culture that we maintain. Our strength lies in the people we are and we go to great lengths to nurture a family of coders, designers, sellers, marketers, analysts, writers, runners, photographers, gamers, tinkerers, and above all, people who are dreamers and doers at the same time. Be a part of our exciting journey.

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About Ayo Ajayi

Experience

Database Administrator

Education

University of Ilorin, Nigeria

Austin Peay State University

University of Ilorin, Nigeria

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