Debashis Barai

• Part of Walmart's Data Platform Team focusing on Engineering development and Operational excellence to offer 3rd party provided PaaS as a managed service for Walmart Application teams.
• Managed upto 10 associates including developers and database administrators responsible for development and support integrations for Azure SQL, CosmosDB , Azure Redis, Azure Postgres and GCP Postgres.
• Responsible for customer success and business advancements by simplifying the choices on data platform with best-in-class advisory services, focusing on innovation, operational excellence and improving time to market.
• Collaborating with Product and Program Management team on defining quarterly plans and annual roadmap, managing backlog and priorities and keeping the team aligned to Business Objectives.
• Instrumental in reducing cloud expenses by approx. $7mn/year in the last couple of years by analyzing capacity, throughput utilization and pattern analysis of 200+ production Azure SQL and CosmosDB by providing scale-down and optimization recommendations.
• Reduced Operational support provided for team by 30% in FY23 and 25% in FY22 to free up more Engineering time by delivering on self-service integration enhancements and facilitating transition of support work to cloud vendors/product teams which are rooted to vendor specific environmental issues.
• Improved the BCDR posture for managed services offering and empowered customers to self-serve by launching new capabilities and improving on the existing ones.
• Started new capability within Data Platform org on Azure Redis Cache from India center by transitioning product into managed services offering and developed team of qualified and motivated employees by trainings.
• Reduced support ticket older than 30 days by 35%, improved TAT by 32% and reduced problem tasks older than a quarter by 72% through process improvements, root-cause analysis and monitoring enhancements.

• As Product Owner for Managed SQL team, helped define vision and requirements for self-service portal for SQL customers in both private and public cloud having a mix of IaaS, PaaS and on-premise footprints.
• Responsible fo managed service feature deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery based on the business requirements and feedback from customers.
• Manage a cross-functional process to translate the desired customer experience into a logically sequenced and optimized product roadmap.
• Focused on building critical features and functionality up front in order to identify constraints and technical challenges.
• In addition to managing product backlog items and priorities, documented comprehensive user manuals for new managed services in terms of technical guides on product page and blog posts.
• Oversaw more than 20 release cycles to deliver on 52 features and 73 bug fixes during the 30 months stint starting from scoping requirements to preparing detailed BRDs, planning milestones, sprint management and working with technical teams on having them delivered.
• Delivered on custom auto-scaling solution "Opti-scale" for Cosmos and Azure SQL accounting for $500k per year savings.
• Collaborated with team of engineers to develop new features like Cost Estimator, Access Management and Password Reset Self-service utility.

• Promoted to the lead the engineering initiatives as subject matter expert and primary point-of-contact for SQL Server landscape expansion for best of breed implementation.
• Influence product delivery road map by bringing in suggestions to make the product more robust and effectively communicating with stakeholders on the Data Foundation product tech stack.
• Integral player in converging database teams managing Store Operations and Ecommerce which involved lot of planning, cross training between members without impact to the current work being done
• Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues.
• Trained and mentored junior developers and engineers, teaching skills in SQL Server and Cloud Technology to improve overall team performance without impacting the current work being done.
• Complete ownership of incident management and post incident review ensuring service offering are proactively managed to minimize service disruptions.
• Checked client code for bugs and weaknesses using approved troubleshooting methods.

• Recruited to build SQL Server Team in India Development Center by bringing in ownership and deliver impactful changes from India.
• Helped in hiring and onboarding other team members focused on database engineering and operations.
• Collaborated with management, internal and development partners regarding software application design status and project progress.
• Worked with Engineering team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
• Influencing the app teams in decision making process for picking the right data store / solution for their use cases.

Client(s): EON(Germany/UK)

• Project involved off shoring of more than 500 production databases on various platform of Windows and different versions SQL server which was formerly supported by E.ON IT and later by Hewlett Packard, Germany and UK to India.
• Onsite experience of 8 months involving service planning, project consultation, migration strategy, defining RTPA criteria, resource planning, transition timeline with onshore and offshore management CCL and Transition Manager.
• Gained strong leadership skills by managing full project offshore lifecycle activity for HP Onshore (UK and Germany) client EON to HP India which included off shoring of the 500 instances in 3 waves.
• Involved in project Documentation, implementation of management tools on the offshore supported nodes.
• Imparted training on the architecture and way of working to all the team members in India after successful completion of offshore of client.
• Creating and participation in Service Delivery Reviews (SDR) on a monthly basis.
• Implemented incident, change and problem management as ITIL processes and standardized across the delivery.

Client(s): PEPSICO [Spain/Peru], OMC[APJ], ECI Telecom[Israel/France], SRA[AMS], DELPHI[US],On Mobile[India], On semi(US).

• Integral part of a 12 member specialist team providing L3/DTS for various clients responsible for analyzing, troubleshooting, Root Cause Analysis & long-term resolution for critical production issues.
• Used strong analytical and problem-solving skills to develop effective solutions for challenging situations.
• Implemented database best practices on SQL Server environment involving both physical and virtual clusters to ensuring faster detection (monitoring, maintenance, and backup) and quicker mitigation/fail-away during issues.
• Optimize database performance by analyzing and tuning workloads and work closely with the customer on implementing short and long-term recommendations.

Client(s): AGILENT [US]/PEPSICO [Spain/Peru]/ On semi(US)

• Technically leading a team of 24 members supporting SQL Server and Oracle database technology in a Shared services delivery model.
• Cultivated interpersonal skills by building positive relationships with others.
• Ensured business continuity by defining and executing disaster recovery goals, delivered through implementation of Windows Clustering, Database Mirroring, Transaction Replication, Peer to Peer Replication, Log Shipping, AlwaysON Availability Groups and Double-Take Replication.

Client(s): AIRBUS Industrie [ France] /AGILENT [US]/PEPSICO [Spain/Peru]/UNILEVER [UK]

• Member of the SQL Server database team working in a shared services delivery model supporting critical customers/projects to enable delivery efficiencies and technical resolution.
• Developed scripts and processes for data integration and maintenance.