CHITIJ CHAUHAN
Flat No 1201 A ,13th Floor , Amrapali Empire , Crossing Republic , Ghaziabad -201009
Phone : +91 9990150630 , +65 84071475 Email : [email protected]
Career Objective
A skilled IT professional with a track record of managing complex projects in various
environment and willing to contribute in an organization using most current technologies
and collaborative brainstorming strategies.
An experienced IT professional with over 13 years of experience in managing production
database environments of over 500 TB in size and leading and managing global database
teams
Experience Summary
1. Extensive experience in database architecture ranging from core RDBMS platforms
to massively parallel distributed databases to in memory based databases.
2. Extensive expertise in creating and architecting scalable, fault tolerant ,resilient
distributed systems .
3. Vast experience in carrying out successful client POC iterations.
4. Extensive experience in Project Management and Team management and leading
and managing global databases teams.
5. Wide experience in customer dealing ranging from database presales activities to
resolving conflicting and escalated production support issues.
6. Extensive experience in evaluating and benchmarking database performance
using a wide variety of tools.
7. Extensive expertise in inmemory distributed database and datastores such as
Altibase, MemSQL , VoltDB and SAP HANA.
8. Wide knowledge in MPP and distributed columnstore databases such as Vertica ,
Greenplum , Vectorwise , CitusData and PostgresXL
9. Expertise in core RDBMS platforms such as Ingres , PostgreSQL , Oracle ,DB2 ,Sybase
and Informix.
10. Experience with wide columnstore and NoSQL products such as Cassandra and
Apache Ignite.
11. Experience in setting up data masking and data encryption standards for
databases.
12. Served as project lead for different database activities such as database migration
, database upgrades.
13. Expertise in Linux HA Architecture stack (Pacemaker and Corosync) setup and
implementation.
14. Wide Experience in managing , tuning , maintaining , upgrading and administering
ERP products such as Oracle E-Business Suite.
15. Experience with working with Linux Containers such as Docker , LXC and managing
them via a orchestration platform such as Kubernetes on AWS .
Education
• Master of Science in Information Technology.
• Bachelor of Computer Applications.
Professional Achievements
• International Author of book titled PostgreSQL Cookbook by Packt Publishing
• International Author of book titled High Performance PostgreSQL by Packt
Professional Certifications
• Certified Project Director
• Open Source Software Silver Certified PostgreSQL Professional
• Master CIW Administrator
• Oracle Certified MySQL Cluster Expert
• MemSQL Certified Database Administrator
• CIW Security Analyst
• IBM Infosphere Guardium Database Security Professional
• Certified Ethical Hacker
• Oracle Database10g Administrator Certified Professional (OCP )
• IBM DB2 v8 Certified Advanced Database Administrator
• IBM Informix v11 Certified System Administrator
• IBM Certified Tivoli Storage Manager Administrator
• Microsoft Certified IT Professional SQL Server 2008 Database Administrator
• EC-Council Certified Security Analyst
• Cisco Certified Network Associate
• ITIL Foundatiion
Detailed Employment History
Incedo ( September 2016 – Present)
Profile : Senior Technical Lead
Projects : Citibank
1. Managed and led the offshore team comprising of MemSQL , Big Data and Netezza groups
for Citi .
2. Served as the Subject Matter Expert for MemSQL distributed inmemory database and led
the implementation ,deployment and monitoring of MemSQL production clusters for
Genesis Retail and Mortage applications across different regions.
3. Served as the Project Lead and successfully conducted the Vertica SQL on Hadoop and
Vertica Enterprise Edition POC for Citibank.
4. Provided expert troubleshooting support for dealing with escalated issues and production
outages.
5. Led the APAC Data Migration Project for moving Genesis Mortage / Loan Data from
Teradata to MemSQL.
6. Initiated and arranged high level discussions for POC testing on niche distributed inmemory
and hybrid datastores such as Apache Ignite and Gridgain that can lower overall
application cost and provide a significant performance gain thereby enhancing the overall
application stack.
7. Extensive experience in leading POC iterations and converting potential clients as a verified
customer base.
8. Successfully carried out a large number of POCs for testing different database technologies
trying to meet Citi’s business requirement for data ingestion , data traversal from a source
DBMS to and from Hadoop ecosystem across the big data spectrum.
9. Provided DBA Support for Pearl application’s Sybase , Netezza and MemSQL Database
servers.
10. Provided expert level database consulting and support across different clients and verticals.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise ( March 2016 - September 2016)
Profile : Project Lead
Projects : Lufthansa Airlines , HP Enterprise Services Group
1. Managed and led the team of ten DBAs spread across different locations.
2. Led the database architecture and presales group at HP Enterprise division.
3. Led the implementation ,deployment and provided support for deployment of Altibase
in HP Korea OpenMCM system.
4. Benchmarking and load testing performance for NewSQL distributed inmemory
databases such as VoltDB , MemSQL and Altibase.
5. Benchmarking and evaluating performance of opensource database products such as
Ingres and CitusData as against proprietary databases such as Oracle and Informix.
6. Handled presales activities for HP Vertica database across various clients.
7. Led and managed the Ingres database performance for Lufthansa Airlines and
applications.
8. Led the deployment of Informix and CitusData in HP Digital Safe project.
9. Implemented high availability ,scalability , failover and DR solutions for Ingres , Altibase
and Informix databases.
10. Assisted the HP Vertica Sales team in qualifying , nurturing and tuning a potential
customer into an existing customer base for the organization.
11. Extensive experience in the architecture of Data Warehouse , VLDB (over 500 TB) , OLTP ,
DSS and OLAP
RoomVille Technologies Private Limited ( August 2015 - March 2016)
Profile : Database Architect
Projects : Castle Hotel and Resorts , Gurneys Montauk Resort
1. Presenting proof of concept results to existing and potential customers for open source
database products such as Apache Cassandra , PostgresXL and Greenplum.
2. Managed multiple database clusters with hundreds of nodes in production ,QA and
development.
3. Administer several doubly redundant ( failover + offsite) PostgreSQL VLDB installations with
DRBD data replication and Linux Pacemaker cluster automation.
4. Building the Cassandra nodes using AWS and setting up the Cassandra cluster.
5. Managing multiple Cassandra activites like node repairs, daily backups etc.
6. Create and maintain documentation and emergency checklist disaster recovery
dashboard for DBA coverage and direction of system evolution
7. Data Replication from Oracle to PostgreSQL and vice versa using Oracle Goldengate.
8. Successfully led and executed the data migration project from Oracle to Greenplum.
9. Maintaining custom vacuum strageties for high volume databases.
10. Provinding cross platform support and heterogeneous migration of data between
PostgreSQL , Greenplum and MemSQL database servers,
11. Project Head for carrying out optimization related changes for PostgreSQL , Greenplum ,
Vertica and MemSQL databases.
12. Architecting and implementing enterprise solutions for Vertica , PostgreSQL and
Greenplum databases.
13. Developing the backup stragety and regular testing of backup and recovery solutions.
14. Carrying out and demonstrating regular proof of concept case scenarios for developing
new database standards.
Emerson Information Technology Solutions ( July 2011 - August 2015)
Profile : Senior Database Engineer
Projects : Emerson Process Management , Emerson Industrial Automation
1. Led the implementation and installation of columnstore database products i.e. Vertica and
Vectorwise, Greenplum on development and production environments.
2. Led the implementation , deployment of inmemory database product Altibase on
development and production deployments.
3. Served as the project lead and led the successful migration of a customer datawarehouse
implementation from Teradata to Vertica thereby increasing performance and reducing
the overall cost..
4. Served as the project lead for data migration from Oracle to Altibase.
5. Led the HP Vertica Database Scalability and expansion project and successfully
implemented addition of new cluster nodes and even redistribution of data across the
entire cluster.
6. Scheduling and troubleshooting the load schedules in Vertica and Vectorwise.Monitoring
and restarting the data load schedules as needed on a live system.
7. Responsible for monitoring the performance Vertica , Greenplum and Vectorwise database
clusters.
8. Troubleshooting performance issues ,optimizing SQL queries , identifying and resolving data
skewness isssues and database parameter tuning.
9. Part of the QA Team responsible for establishing standards related to database
performance and optimization areas.
10. Led the Vertica and Greenplum database upgrade project.
11. Served as the project lead for Oracle Applications Project Upgrade from version 11.5.10.2 to
12.0.1
12. Established master and replica setups for PostgreSQL production deployments.
13. Led the database upgrade project from PostgreSQL Version 9.2 to 9.3 and from 9.3 to 9.4
version.
14. Bulkloading data from CSV files and external tables in PostgreSQL , Vertica and Vectorwise
servers.
Freelance Consultant ( January 2011 - July 2011)
Profile : Corporate Trainer and Technical Consultant
Clients : Mercury Solutions Limited , Roshcomm (Bahrain) , Jodo Institute , Signal House (Nigeria)
1. Delivered onsite data security trainings at Roshcomm , Bahrain
2. Delivered onsite and inhouse information security and DBA trainings for Mercury Solutions
Limited
3. Initiated implementation and consulting work on establishing database security
standards for Signal House Nigeria .
4. Conducted penetration testing workshops for Jodo Institute.
5. Carried out database prooft of concept implementation for potential customers.
Cyber Intelligent Security Private Limited ( March 2010 - December 2010)
Profile : Technical Consultant
Duration : March 2010 - December 2010
Projects : Bloomberg
1. Heavily involved with suite of different database security products including IBM
Infosphere Guardium and Oracle Database Vault
2. Part of the core group identifying and reporting database security vulnerabilities to the
auditing group.
3. Implementing data encryption and masking for business requirements using VPD , Oracle
Label Security and Transparent Data Encryption.
4. Implementation and installation of IBM Infosphere Guardium for products and
development environments,
5. Implementation ,deployment and administration of Oracle Database and Audit Vault.
6. Providing technical administration and support for IBM Guadium Database Monitoring
Tool.
7. Coordinating with business and PMO to translate application security requirements into
Guardium policies.
8. Part of the core group responsible for development and refinement of database security
standards for enterprise infrastructure.
9. Involved in analyzing and deploying security related patches for Oracle Applications
and Oracle Databases.
10. Reviewing audit logs and reporting unauthorized access activites to the audit group.
11. Part of the group doing vulnerability scanning and penetration testing for Oracle and
Ingres databases.
Bhagwati Emporium ( July 2007 - March 2010)
Profile : System Administrator
Duration : July 2007 - March 2010
1. Designed , installed , created and maintained Ingres , DB2 , Oracle and Postgres
servers.
2. Managed database growth and performance with database reorgs.
3. Assisted developers in database and application tuning for optimal performance.
4. Loaded and refreshed non production databases for application testing
5. Audited application SQL Code prior to production implementation.
6. Rolled up department database measurements.
7. Performed database recoveries of Ingres ,DB2 , Oracle and PostgreSQL databases.
8. Involved in drills related to business continuity and disaster recovery.
9. Performed regular health check of Ingres , DB2 , Oracle and Postgres DB servers.
10. Responsible for developing standards related to optimization and database
security.
11. Setting up a highly available and fault tolerant Ingres Database via Ingres
Replicator.
12. Led the Ingres and PostgreSQL Database Upgrade project.
Bharat Tractors ( Novermber 2004 - March 2007 )
Profile : System Administrator
Duration : November 2004 - March 2007
1. Installing and configuring Ingres and PostgreSQL Databases.
2. Implementing table partitioning for large tables in Ingres and PostgreSQL
development and production environments.
3. Work with development teams to safely integrate schema changes into existing
infrastructure.
4. Creating backup and recovery strageties for production and staging
environments.
5. Carrying out the database reorganization of fragmented tables and indexes in
Ingres and PostgreSQL staging and production environments.
6. Carrying out monthly refreshes of Ingres and PostgreSQL staging environments.
7. Carrying out the monthly backup and recovery tests for DR simulation.
8. Led the Ingres database upgrade project.
9. Monitoring alerts and setting up cron scripts for different database monitoring
tasks.
10. Continually supporting several documentation and SOP development initiatives.
11. Optimizing and tuning the Ingres and PostgreSQL production databases.
Software Skills
Operating Systems : RHEL Linux , CentOS , Solaris , AIX , HP-UX , Windows Server 2008
RDBMS : Ingres, PostgreSQL,Vertica,Oracle,Greenplum,Sybase,Vectorwise,DB2,MemSQL
Software Tools : HP Service Manager , JIRA , ServiceNow , BMC Remedy
Personal Details
Date Of Birth :18.07.1984
Age : 32 Years
Nationality : Indian
Languages Known : English , Hindi
Hobbies : Reading , Watching Television , Travelling
Strengths : Courage , Determination ,Ability to Work Under Pressure.
