About

Vignesh Ravichandran is an experienced Database Engineer and DevOps professional with over 7 years of relevant experience. He currently works as an Engineering Manager at Cloudflare, where he is responsible for the company's mission-critical databases. He is also actively hiring Database Engineers for Cloudflare. Vignesh holds a Master's degree in Information Systems from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where he specialized in Enterprise Servers. Prior to his graduate studies, he worked at Genscape and Ford India Private Limited as a Database Administrator/Developer, supporting various RDBMS such as Oracle, Postgres, SQL Server, and NoSQL databases like Mongo and Couchbase. He operated these databases in both on-premise and public cloud environments like AWS and Azure. In his previous roles, Vignesh supported the design, implementation, and maintenance of database management systems. He developed processes to ensure data was properly stored and access was properly controlled. He also designed and installed database management system applications, established synergies with existing database applications and processing systems, and worked on performance issues. He created logical diagrams to figure out loop pools in database designs and functionality and performed SQL and database tuning. He also performed backup and recovery on database management systems. Vignesh's past companies include Ticketmaster, where he worked as a Database Engineer, and Genscape, Inc., where he worked as a Database Developer/Administrator. At Ticketmaster, he worked on migrating various RDBMS and NoSQL databases to AWS. At Genscape, he provided database support for over 100 databases running on Postgres, SQL Server, Oracle, and GreenPlum. He also planned and migrated the Oracle RMAN backups from HP's Data Protector tool to Dell's NetVault and built a continuous data integration environment using tools like Git, BitBucket, TeamCity, Octopus, and Red Gate's add-on. He worked on continuous data replication on Postgres databases between production and lower environments using the symmetry tool. Vignesh's tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, SQL, AWS, NoSQL, MongoDB, Postgres, DevOps, Azure, Python, MySQL, and Integration.