Formerly co-owner and initiator of OptimaData BV.

DataBase Reliability Engineering (DBRE) expert and evangelist. DBRE is about changing your mindset “avoiding unreliability and repetitive tasks, working close with development teams”.
I am an experienced Multi Platform Database Administrator & Consultant & Trainer of various vendors, like MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, PostgresPURE, Sybase, Oracle, MongoDB, CockRoachDB, Hadoop.
Certified MongoDB, SQL Server, PostgreSQL Database Administration & OptimaDBA.
Experience with PostgreSQL & PostgresPURE, Slony replication, RepMgr, PgPool and PgBouncer connection pooling. Also with ClusterControl and MaxScale.
Experience with High Availability Solutions for SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
Continuous Integration & Delivery (CI/CD), Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Cloud Expert.

Specialities: NoSQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, Sybase Replication Server, Oracle, Nagios(XI), Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, Slony replication, RepMgr and PgPool&PgBouncer connection pooling, MaxScale, ProxySQL, ClusterControl and other monitoring solutions.
Terraform, Packer, Ansible, GOCD automation tooling.

Providing senior consultancy and training for IT projects and Database Engineering and Administration.