Karthik Dharmaraju
VP | Senior DBA | Site Reliability Engineer | Data Engineering | AWS cloud Certified| AWS Hands-On Architect | Automation Advocate | Production Support | Team Leadership | Database Strategy | DEVOPS | Python
- Role
- VP at Morgan Stanley
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Karthik Dharmaraju
Accomplished leader with 19 years of experience in database administration, data…
Experience
VP
Aug 2014 — Present · US
Roles: Database Design and Optimization, AWS Solutions Architect, Site Reliability Engineering, Data Analytics, Data Governance, Security and Compliance, High Availability and Disaster Recovery, Performance Tuning, Scripting and Automation, Problem Management, Monitoring and Alerting, Capacity Planning and Scaling, Change Management and Version Upgrades, Project/Product Management, Troubleshooting/Problem Resolution, Team Player, Client/Vendor relationship, Leadership and Mentoring, Communication SkillsLed PoC migration of PostgreSQL workloads to AWS using Migration Hub, MGN & DMS; validated replication & cutover strategies.Designed & tested event-driven architecture with EventBridge, Lambda & SQS for real-time processing/alerting.Built serverless CRUD app (API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB) demonstrating scalable microservices. patterns.Conducted Lambda benchmarking, tuning memory & concurrency for 40% faster execution & reduced cold starts.Created system design blueprints using AWS Well-Architected Framework (EC2, RDS, VPC, S3, IAM, CloudWatch).Directed Cyber MRA for 40+ apps; built BMR on DB2/Linux, cutting recovery test time from 2 days → 3 hrs.Architected HADR + Q Replication for 20+ prod apps (100M+ daily txns), delivering 99.99% uptime & reducing failover from 30 mins → 90 secs with zero data loss.Deployed Grafana, Splunk, Python log parsers, improving alerting speed by 95% & reducing Sev-1/2s by 50%.Automated health checks, backups, audits with Python/Shell/Perl—saving 300+ hrs/yr & cutting repeat tickets 60%($150K annual savings).Tuned DB workloads (Explain Plans, WLM, SQL auto-tuning), improving query speeds 70% & cutting CPU 50%.Hardened security across 250+ DB instances with encryption, row-level access, DB Audit & Guardium; eliminated audit findings.Scaled DB infra for 20+ apps (15M+ daily txns), improving perf 25% & saving $100K/yr.Deployed Delphix & containerized DB2, reducing test setup from 4 days → 2 hrs & improving release cycles 55%.
Skills
- Ibm Db2 Udb Dba
- Data Warehousing
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