Senior MySQL Database Administrator

Databases that stay up when the transactions don't stop.

9+ years administering MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB across banking, insurance, fintech, and stock-market platforms — currently at Mosambee, on database infrastructure behind live payment processing.

9+
Years in MySQL DBA
250+
Databases administered
3TB
Largest DB handled
5
Industries served
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Siddhant Gurav

About

Database administrator with 9+ years keeping production systems available, secure, and fast — from stock-market transaction platforms to bank payment gateways. Currently a Senior MySQL Database Administrator at Synergistic Financial Networks Ltd (Mosambee), working on database infrastructure for live transaction processing. B.Sc. in Information Technology, Nirmala College.

Experience

Across banking, insurance, entertainment, pharma, e-commerce, and stock-market brokerages — administering 250+ databases from 500GB to 3TB.

  1. May 2025 — Present
    Senior MySQL Database Administrator
    Synergistic Financial Networks Ltd (Mosambee)

    Database infrastructure for live payment transaction processing.

    PaymentsProduction
  2. Jan 2024 — Apr 2025
    MySQL Database Administrator
    Hexaware Technologies

    Production, UAT, and development database administration across client environments.

    Multi-clientProd / UAT / Dev
  3. Jan 2022 — Jan 2024
    MySQL Database Administrator
    Upstox

    Stock-market transaction databases, secure transactional environments, and PII data handling.

    Stock marketPII data
  4. Sep 2021 — Jan 2022
    MySQL Database Administrator
    Euronet Worldwide

    Transactional and payment gateway databases for a major bank.

    Payment gatewayBanking
  5. Nov 2017 — Sep 2021
    MySQL Database Administrator
    Netmagic Solutions (an NTT Data company)

    Multi-domain client databases — banking, finance, insurance, entertainment, pharma, e-commerce.

    Data-centre scaleMulti-domain

What I actually do

Reliability & DR

  • 24×7 support on AWS RDS, Aurora, MySQL 5.7/8.0
  • GTID replication setup
  • DR drills — switchover & switchback
  • Incremental recovery via binlogs

Performance & automation

  • Table maintenance — defrag, index rebuilds
  • Tuning for faster dump restoration
  • Cron / shell / scheduler automation
  • Minor & major version upgrades

Security & operations

  • User & privilege provisioning
  • Server hardening per client policy
  • New environment setup, tight timelines
  • Jira / ServiceNow ticketing

PostgreSQL

HA topology — primary + hot standby, WAL streaming replication, PgBouncer transaction pooling for write/read-split workloads.

MongoDB

Replica-set administration, indexing strategy, and major-version rolling upgrades (7.0 → 8.0) with backup validation.

Toolbox

Databases

MySQL 5.7/8.0Aurora MySQLMariaDBPostgreSQLMongoDB

Cloud & infrastructure

AWS RDSS3Route 53ClusterControl

Automation & monitoring

JenkinsLiquibasePrometheusGrafanaPerconaMEB

OS & ticketing

Linux (RHEL)AIXHP-UXWindowsJiraServiceNow

Currently expanding into AWS cloud certifications and PostgreSQL specialization.

Education & certifications

  • B.Sc. Information Technology — Nirmala College, 2016
  • H.S.C. — Patkar College, 2013
  • S.S.C. — St. Francis High School, 2011
  • Oracle Database 12c: Administration Workshop — 2019
  • ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management — 2017
  • Advanced Excel Workshop — 2018
  • Employee of the Quarter, Jan–Mar 2019

Get in touch

Open to conversations about database reliability, migrations, or your team's data infrastructure.

siddhantgurav10@gmail.com +91 77000 91233 linkedin.com/in/siddhant-gurav-b71035181