Gulab Sachanandani
About Gulab Sachanandani
Gulab Sachanandani is a Sr. Cloud Database Engineer at Flexport with extensive experience in database management, disaster recovery, and infrastructure automation.
Professional Title
Gulab Sachanandani holds the position of Sr. Cloud Database Engineer at Flexport. Located in San Francisco, California, he operates in a hybrid work environment.
Career History
Gulab has accumulated years of experience as a senior database professional across various companies. From 2021 to 2023, he served as a Sr. Database Engineer at GRAIL, Inc. Prior to that, he held the same role at Fivetran from 2019 to 2021. Between 2014 and 2019, he was a Sr. Database Engineer at Salesforce. His earlier positions include being a Sr. DBA at Williams-Sonoma, Inc. from 2012 to 2014 and short-term contracts as a Sr. DBA at Wells Fargo (2011-2012), PG&E (2010-2011), and Danger Inc. (2009-2010). He started his database administration career at IPASS Inc. from 2008 to 2009.
Education and Expertise
Gulab Sachanandani graduated from VJTI, Mumbai, India, where he studied Electronics and earned a Bachelor's degree. His expertise includes advanced knowledge in high-availability Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA), and DataGuard environments. He is proficient in data warehouse environments like AWS Redshift and has experience implementing disaster recovery strategies for various database sizes. Furthermore, Gulab has a deep understanding of AWS database environments and has managed, upgraded, and maintained multiple AWS Aurora databases.
Technical Skills
Throughout his career, Gulab Sachanandani has demonstrated a variety of technical skills. He has collaborated with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and engineering teams to deploy and automate infrastructure using Terraform as Infrastructure as Code (IaaC). His responsibilities have included designing and maintaining Entity-Relationship Diagrams (ERD) for multiple services and creating Data Migration Services (DMS) and reports. He is known for improving efficiency and product development cycles in both public cloud and in-house environments. Additionally, Gulab is proficient in the creative use of scripting, design, development, and performance tuning for database management.
Industry Contributions
Gulab Sachanandani has made notable contributions to the database management industry. He has evaluated new technologies and developed best practices and processes for database management. His role often involved providing expert advice and counsel to partners, engineering teams, and users on a variety of database systems. This advisory role has helped shape policies and practices within his environments, ensuring optimal performance and reliability of database systems.