Akhil Kalra
About Akhil Kalra
Akhil Kalra is the Lead Oracle Database Administrator at Wealthsimple, with extensive experience in database management and cloud engineering.
Title
Akhil Kalra is a Lead Oracle Database Administrator currently working at Wealthsimple in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has held this position since 2022.
Company
Wealthsimple is a Toronto-based company where Akhil Kalra serves as the Lead Oracle Database Administrator. He has been with Wealthsimple since 2022.
Previous Roles
Akhil Kalra has a diversified professional background. He worked as a Cloud Engineer for CPP Investments in Toronto from 2021 to 2022. Prior to that, he was an AWS Cloud Engineer at Amazon in Bengaluru, India, from 2019 to 2021. Additionally, he served as an IT Technology Consultant at SAP Labs India and an Advanced Support Engineer at Oracle in Bengaluru. Akhil has also held roles at Cerner Corporation and ArisGlobal as a Database Administrator and a Database Analyst, respectively.
Education and Expertise
Akhil Kalra graduated from Punjab Technical University with a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science in 2013. Before that, he completed a Diploma in Computer Engineering from Rayat Polytechnic College in Ropar, Punjab, in 2010. He has extensive expertise in Oracle Data Guard, performing rolling upgrades and patching, creating and managing Oracle SQL and PL/SQL objects, and implementing backup and recovery strategies using RMAN. He is also knowledgeable about Oracle Database 12c, including the management of CDB and PDB databases.
Skills and Technical Proficiency
Akhil Kalra is highly skilled in Oracle Data Guard with experience in various standby configurations such as physical, logical, active, and snapshot standby. He is proficient in creating and managing Oracle SQL and PL/SQL objects, including tables, views, indexes, sequences, synonyms, triggers, and materialized views. Akhil is adept in using Oracle Enterprise Manager DB Console for database monitoring and implementing backup and recovery strategies using RMAN. He also has significant experience with the new features of Oracle Database 12c.