Bill Behnke
Cloud Database Administrator @Mark43
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WORK HISTORY
Cloud Database Administrator @Mark43
New York, NY, US
Cloud Database Administrator & Certified AWS Solutions Architect for SaaS Public Safety (police, fire) Software Company supporting RDS & Aurora MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL workloads and Analytics Data Pipelines.• Provide 365 days per year (sole DBA) Tier‑1/Tier‑2 on‑call support, incident response, and root cause analysis.• Remediated, then upgraded 100+ MySQL 5.6 & 5.7 instances to MySQL 8.0 with just 3-4 minutes downtime.• Currently remediating and migrating 150+ RDS MySQL instances to Aurora MySQL-compatible (serverless).• Created, optimize and administrate 263 PostgreSQL / MySQL / SQL Server / Redshift database instances & clusters totaling 290 TB (largest single instance is 35 TB), in the East & West Gov Cloud Regions + UK London Region, supporting a mission‑critical, 24x7 public safety (police, port authority & constabulary ) SaaS platform.• Design and maintain highly available RDS and Aurora architectures achieving 99.99% uptime with defined SLA, SLO, SLI, RTO, RPO targets plus continually published key performance indicator trends.• Independently lead database performance tuning initiatives, query latency reductions and optimizing cloud database spend through careful instance engine and storage choices and right‑sizing.• Execute major version upgrades, instance class changes, and migrations with minimal downtime.• Partner closely with application & data engineering, platform, SRE teams on database / data tier design decisions.
EDUCATION
Illinois Institute of Technology
Information Technology (E-commerce Certification)
Quinlan School of Business, Loyola University Chicago
Business Administration (IT Specialization)
Knox College
Bachelor of Arts, Economics / Business Administration and Biology
SKILLS
ABOUT BILL BEHNKE
Principal Cloud Database Administrator and AWS Certified Solutions Architect with 15+ years’ experience designing, administering, and optimizing mission-critical relational, columnar, and NoSQL database platforms in AWS, Azure and hybrid environments.Deep Amazon expertise in RDS & Aurora | PostgreSQL | MySQL | SQL Server, Redshift, Athena, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, minimal downtime major version upgrades, large-scale heterogeneous database migrations, and near real-time data pipelines for data warehouses and data lakes.Proven track record supporting SaaS platforms with 99.99% availability, with a strong focus on performance tuning, cost optimization, implementing observability, security, and regulatory compliance (FedRAMP, CJIS). Adept at strategically and independently owning large database fleets (currently administrating 273 instances totaling 290 TBs of storage), while partnering closely with leadership, application engineering, data engineering, platform, and SRE teams.
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