Shubham Shrivastava

About Shubham Shrivastava

I am a Staff Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) with 14+ years of experience in designing, operating, and scaling large-scale MySQL and PostgreSQL, Percona Mariadb Enterprise mysql and galera innodb cluster based database environments across On-Prem, AWS RDS, and Aurora. I focus on delivering high performance, cost-efficient, reliable, and highly available data platforms that enable business growth at scale.I lead and mentor a team of DBREs, driving technical direction, incident reviews, automation-first engineering, and continuous performance improvement. My work has consistently resulted in reduced latency, optimized query performance, increased system reliability, and significant cost savings across production workloads.Core Strengths & Focus Areas:Performance Engineering (Server tuning, Schema design, Query optimization)High Availability & Fault Tolerant Architectures (Aurora, Multi-AZ, Replication topologies)Cost Optimization across RDS, Aurora, Storage & Compute footprintsReliability Engineering practices (SLOs, Observability, Capacity planning, Incident response)End-to-end ownership of MySQL/PostgreSQL/Aurora ecosystemsTechnical leadership and mentoring of DBRE/DBA teamsKey Experience Highlights:Designed and managed large, high throughput OLTP and analytics platforms on AWS RDS/Aurora.Executed zero-downtime upgrades, major version migrations, and replication cutovers.Implemented ProxySQL / HAProxy / MaxScale based routing for resilient architecture.Built backup and recovery strategies using XtraBackup, MariaBackup, mysqldump/pgdump, maintaining strong RPO/RTO guarantees.Extensive hands-on experience with Percona Toolkit, online schema changes, performance diagnostics, slow query analysis & workload benchmarking.Automated routine operations, monitoring, and scaling workflows via shell scripting & AWS Lambda.Experience with MongoDB, ClickHouse, ScyllaDB, Solr, ElasticSearch, and core Linux admin.I bring a problem-solving mindset, strong ownership, and the ability to collaborate with engineering, product, and SRE teams to ensure reliability, performance, and business continuity at scale.

Experience

1. Staff Engineer

   Freshworks

   Jan 2025 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

Education

• RGPV Bhopal

  Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Information Technology

  2006 — 2010

Skills

• Performance Tuning
• Team Management
• Sqlite
• Python
• Mysql Database Administration
• Databases
• Monitoring Performance
• Sql
• Linux
• Pl/Sql
• Capacity Planning
• Database Administration
• Apache Solr
• Data Security
• Load Testing
• Mysql
• Postgresql
• Ftp
• Database Installation
• High Availability
• Linux System Administration
• Smpp
• Mongodb
• Client Co-Ordination
• Etl Testing
• Redis
• Production Support
• Data Backup Solutions
• Database Design
• Shell Scripting
• Application Support
• Data Replication
• Data Migration
• Perl