Founder of Randoneering, LLC with a decade of experience in scaling IT Infrastructure and managing critical Data platforms. An Open Source Evangelist championing services and products from the community in professional settings. 

Currently serving as Senior Data Engineer at RxBenefits, Inc, demonstrating expertise in the creation and maintenance of its enterprise data warehouse, supporting all reporting, and analytic functions within the company. Additionally, I analyze, test, and implement ELT, connections, and extract supporting various business applications (including definition, structure, documentation, long-range requirements, operational guidelines). 

I am a proud father of three kids, a husband to an amazing wife, and a human trying to avoid negative energy. While I enjoy spending time building complex systems, writing automation, expanding my love for Nix, I spend my spare time outside. I believe that everyone has a place in this world and that we should treat each other with the respect we deserve.

Like my personal life, I like to keep my professional life private as well out of the respect for the people I work with. However, I am happy to speak about my experience. Finally, I consider myself an Open Source Evangelist and find ways I can contribute to the tools I depend, whether that is by physical code contributions or simply by monetary donations.

Presentations

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Five Stages Of Grieving-Databases in Infrastructure as Code

You enter the call (or conference room) where you are greeted by some higher level executives and members of your Infrastructure team. They have been tasked with bootstrapping the company's IT Infrastructure and start building new resources with IaC. Luckily for you (or not), you have experience with this and are eager to prove your worth and show that DBAs can do more than yell at your poorly configured query or that you are using ORMs. While this situation happens to many of us, I rarely hear about the struggles folks have trying to implement a stateful resources (databases) in a stateless in environment consisting of stateless resources. 

For your pleasure and amusement, I plan to walk you through my experience implementing this exact task and align the different phases of the implementation with Dr. Kübler-Ross’s five stages of grieving. Sit back and enjoy a few laughs, memes, and positive outlook on how we continue to create more gray area in daily work.

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pgFirstAid

Easy-to-deploy, open source PostgreSQL function that provides a prioritized list of actions to improve database stability and performance. Inspired by Brent Ozar's FirstResponderKit for SQL Server, pgFirstAid is designed for everyone to use—not just DBAs! Get actionable health insights from your PostgreSQL database in seconds.

 

https://github.com/randoneering/pgFirstAid

 

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