Venkat Vankayala
About Venkat Vankayala
Venkat Vankayala is a Senior Database Administrator at Kohl's with extensive experience in database management and cloud migration.
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Venkat Vankayala is a Senior Database Administrator currently working at Kohl's.
Current Role at Kohl's
Since 2008, Venkat Vankayala has been serving as a Senior Database Administrator at Kohl's. He is based in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, United States. His role involves managing and administrating various database systems to ensure smooth and efficient operations.
Professional Experience
Venkat Vankayala has a diverse background in database administration. Before his current role at Kohl's, he worked as an Oracle DBA consultant at School Specialty for 3 months in 2008. Prior to that, he was an Oracle DBA Consultant at AC Nielsen from 2007 to 2008 for 6 months. From 2003 to 2005, he served as a Database Administrator at Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Corporation Limited in Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
Education and Expertise
Venkat Vankayala earned a Master's degree in Computer Science from The City College of New York, completing his studies in 2007. He has hands-on experience with Oracle database versions 8 through 19c, including 19c RAC on Exadata.
Technical Proficiency in Database Migration
Venkat Vankayala has extensive experience in migrating hundreds of on-premise Enterprise/Percona MySQL and Postgres database instances to Google Cloud SQL databases. He is adept at configuring Oracle Golden Gate for data migration between various database technologies.
DevOps and Microservices Expertise
Venkat Vankayala is proficient in deploying microservices environments using technologies like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Helm, and Crossplane. He has also built Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) and DevOps workflows using GitLab. In addition, he has experience with Docker containers and orchestration layers.
High Availability and Advanced Database Systems
Venkat Vankayala has expertise in high availability design and deployment, including technologies like Oracle Data Guard, Oracle Clusterware, and MySQL InnoDB Cluster. He has worked extensively with Exadata-X3/5/6/8/9 servers, handling features like smart scans, HCC, flash cache, Infiniband, and ILOM.