Gavin Towey
MySQL Expert
- Role
- Database Reliability Engineer at Airtable
- Location
- Bend, OR, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Database Reliability Engineer
Jan 2023 — Present · Bend, OR, US
Lead a significant reliability effort to stabilize primary datastore behind Airtable global metadata; directed remediation strategy leading to > 99.99% system uptime.* Designed and implemented ProxySQL for connection scaling and improved failover capabilities. Used a two-tier approach for efficient amortization of TLS connections and 10:1 reduction in the number of connections.* Completed significant cost optimization improvements which moved archival data to secondary systems resulting in >$3 million/year in savings* Designed and implemented automation framework for operating hundreds of MySQL RDS instances to facilitate version upgrades, storage volume shrinking, schema migrations, and cost management.
Skills
- Perl
- Mysql
- Apache
- Databases
- Scalability
- Linux
- Git
- Php
- Data Center
- Unix
- Automation
- Distributed Systems
- Ruby
- Operations
- Optimization
- Javascript
- Freebsd
- Web Development
- Sql
- Awesomeness
- General Awesomeness
- Linux System Administration
- System Administration
- Making IT Happen
- Cleaning
- Ceiling Cat
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