Kishore Hejmady
About Kishore Hejmady
Kishore Hejmady is a Senior Oracle DBA at Ally Financial Inc. with over 15 years of experience in managing IT infrastructure in the finance industry.
Title
Senior Oracle DBA
Company
Currently working at Ally Financial Inc. as Senior Oracle DBA since 2012. Based in Greater Philadelphia Area, PA, USA.
Previous Work Experience
Kishore Hejmady has held several significant positions prior to his current role. He worked as a Senior Oracle DBA at Chase in Columbus, Ohio Area from 2011 to 2012. At MasterCard in O'Fallon, MO, USA, he served as a Senior Oracle DBA from 2009 to 2011. From 2004 to 2009, he was a Consultant DBA at Putnam Investments. He also held a long tenure at Wipro Technologies, working as a Senior Oracle DBA from 2003 to 2011, and at Melstar Information Technologies Ltd., serving as a Senior Software Engineer from 2000 to 2003 in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Education and Expertise
Kishore Hejmady graduated from the University of Mumbai, where he studied from 1988 to 1992. He has over 15 years of experience managing IT infrastructure, specifically in the finance industry. His expertise lies in Oracle database administration, including performance tuning, database backup and recovery using RMAN, capacity planning, replication, and high availability setups with Data Guard.
Technical Skills
Kishore is proficient in Agile project management workflows and excels at communicating complex technical issues to non-technical associates. He has extensive experience with Oracle versions 7 through 19c, particularly with 11G and 12c RAC. He has managed large databases on Exadata X3 and X5 and has set up Oracle instances on AWS EC2 and AWS RDS. Kishore has also implemented Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) on 11gR2 and installed Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c and 13c Grid for Oracle database monitoring.
Automation and Tools
Kishore utilizes Ansible for automation and has experience building and cloning servers in Vcenter. He writes Ansible scripts for Linux server builds and uses Bash/Ksh shell scripts for monitoring and database backups. Additionally, he has good knowledge of the Attunity replicate tool for data replication from on-prem Oracle databases to Oracle RDS and Kafka.
Project Involvement
Kishore participates in application project meetings to understand requirements and provide solutions to application teams. He is responsible for change management, performance tuning, and monitoring the health of databases as the primary DBA for certain applications.