Me, myself & I

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I am an employee of Oracle and the views expressed on this blog are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Oracle.

Last update: August 2024
(Updated version on my LinkedIn profile)

TL; DR

  • Database specialist with more than 20 years of experience with MySQL.
  • But also Cloud & Data enthusiast, fascinated by Artificial Intelligence.
  • Currently HeatWave & MySQL Cloud Architect at Oracle
  • Knowledge of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure & Google Cloud Platform
  • https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/654d333f-0e54-4560-9208-a54810460f01
  • Book Author, Blogger and Speaker; I’m an insatiable hunger of learning!
  • Former MySQL DBA / Consultant / Architect / Trainer, …

Contact: SELECT REVERSE(‘ten.inisad@reivilo’);

Stay tuned:

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/olivier-dasini
Presentations: : https://speakerdeck.com/freshdaz



Since August 2024: Cloud Principal Solutions Architect EMEA at Oracle. (Paris, France).

  • Experienced Solutions Architect with a balance of technical depth, business acumen and interpersonal skills.
  • Customer advocate who identifies & addresses blockers and provides technical guidance
  • Ability to communicate technical concepts to broad audiences in an engaging way
  • Ability to translate business requirements into technological solutions
  • Migrate OLTP, Analytics, ML & GenAI workloads to the Cloud
  • Problem solver for on-prem & Cloud customers
  • Transfer knowledge to customers
  • Contributor to Oracle Cloud customer-facing publications

December 2015 – July 2024: MySQL Principal Solutions Architect EMEA at Oracle. (Paris, France)

  • Experienced Solutions Architect with a balance of technical depth, business acumen and interpersonal skills.
  • Customer advocate who identifies & addresses blockers and provides technical guidance
  • Ability to communicate technical concepts to broad audiences in an engaging way
  • Ability to translate business requirements into technological solutions
  • Migrate DB workloads to on-prem & Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
  • Problem solver for MySQL customers on-prem & on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

2014 – 2015: Senior MySQL DBA at Zendesk (Dublin, Ireland)

• Led the migration of MySQL servers from 5.5 to 5.6.
• Automate recurring DBA tasks via shell scripts.
• Troubleshoot performance issues & performance tuning (InnoDB).
• Perform database schema changes.
• Perform and manage migrations of customer data between shards.
• Work with and educate our dev teams to make good schema design choices and write
efficient queries.
• Platform : Ubuntu server.

2014 – 2014: Senior MySQL DBA at Hostelworld.com (Dublin, Ireland)

* Troubleshoot performance issues & performance tuning (server and queries optimizations).
* Automate recurring DBA tasks (bash scripts).
* Provide mentorship and technical overview to the developers, system engineers and analysts ensuring best usage of MySQL.
* MySQL technical support.
* Audit of databases architectures.
* Provide technical expertise in order to designed a MySQL architecture matching company needs.
* Platform : CentOS Linux.

2011 – 2014: Lead MySQL DBA at Viadeo. (Paris, France)
• Performance tuning (InnoDB & MyISAM).
• Configure and support MySQL Replication.
• Implementation of backup/restoration strategies.
• Databases migration in UTF-8.
• High Availability with MHA.
• Assist developers with trainings, query tuning and schema design.
• Audit of databases architectures.
• MySQL technical support.
• Percona toolkit user.
• Scripting : BASH, PHP.
• Platform : Linux Debian.
• MySQL writer, blogger and speaker.
2010 – 2011: MySQL consultant and trainer (self-employed)
• Database audit and tuning.
• Data Architect.
• MySQL Training (DBA / Dev / Performance Tuning / HA / MySQL Cluster).
2009 – 2011: Lead MySQL DBA at Orange Business Services. (Paris, France)
• MySQL tech lead & trainer (DBA, DEV and OPS).
• Database migrations & performance tuning (InnoDB & MyISAM).
• Architecture and support on MySQL replication.
• MySQL technical support (level 3).
• Audit of architectures and applications.
• Platform : Linux Debian..
2003 – 2009: MySQL consultant & trainer, PHP trainer & developer at Alter Way. (Paris, France)
• MySQL consultant.
• MySQL certified trainer on official Sun Microsystems / MySQL AB training (acquired by Oracle).
? MySQL: for DBA / for Dev / Performance Tuning / HA / MySQL Cluster.
• Lecturer at the EPITA (graduate school of computer science1): PHP & MySQL.
• Creation of training courses, e.g. the MySQL support for official Zend Technologies.
• PHP developer & trainer.
• Talend ETL trainer.
Book author (in french)
MySQL 5.6 – Administration et optimisation at ENI
ISBN: 978-2-7460-7864-2
http://www.editions-eni.fr/livres/mysql-5-6-administration-et-optimisation/.9071c7583945fceec03752855ea6ac2a.htmlAudit et optimisation – MySQL 5, Bonnes pratiques pour l’administrateur at EYROLLES
ISBN-13: 978-2212126341
http://www.eyrolles.com/Informatique/Livre/audit-et-optimisation-mysql-5-9782212126341MySQL 5 – Administration et optimisation at ENI
ISBN-13: 978-2-7460-5516-2
http://www.editions-eni.fr/livres/mysql-5-administration-et-optimisation/.06248aaef60347cc475078574a915952.html

Speaker
MHA : MySQL haute dispo, chez Viadeo (Fr)
http://fr.slideshare.net/freshdaz/ha-mysql-haute-dispo-chez-viadeo-par-olivier-dasini

Migration MySQL Latin 1 vers UTF-8
http://fr.slideshare.net/freshdaz/tude-de-cas-migration-mysql-latin-1-vers-utf8
http://fr.slideshare.net/freshdaz/meetup-viadeo-lemugolivierdasinimigrationlatin1utf8en

Architectures haute disponibilité avec MySQL (Fr)
http://fr.slideshare.net/freshdaz/architectures-haute-disponibilit-avec-mysql

Optimisation de MySQL (Fr)
http://fr.slideshare.net/freshdaz/optimisation-de-mysql

Associative

  • Co-founder of the french society: MySQL User Group Francophone (LeMUG.fr).

Initial training

  • Level of database engineer, CNAM, 2004
  • MD in Computer Science, with the special option database, University of Paris VI, 2002
  • MySQL Certification

Languages

  • Native French speaker
  • English : Professional working proficiency
  • Native Creole speaker

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