Global Database
Engineering
I design and operate reliable, observable, and secure data systems—from schema to CI/CD.
Global Database
Engineering
I design and operate reliable, observable, and secure data systems—from schema to CI/CD.
Multicultural Database Engineering
Fluent in English, Swedish, Thai, and Czech—bringing technical expertise and cultural understanding to global teams.
Language Capabilities
Time Zone Advantage
Cultural Fluency
Why Choose Kevin for Your Database Projects
Zero‑Downtime Migrations
Rollback plans and rehearsals ensure your business never stops running during critical database transitions.
Performance Optimization
Query plans analyzed, indexes audited, and slow paths removed to maximize your database efficiency.
End-to-End Observability
Complete monitoring with clear SLOs and intelligent alerts so you know exactly what's happening.
Security-First Approach
Least‑privilege access, comprehensive audit trails, and encryption everywhere to protect your data.
Full‑Service Database Engineering
Engagements can be scoped as audits, implementations, or retained reliability engineering. Each comes with documentation, runbooks, and a clear handover.
Database Architecture
Designing relational schemas, data normalization, indexing strategy, partitioning, and high‑availability (read replicas, clustering).
ETL & Data Pipelines
Building reliable batch/stream pipelines, CDC, and data quality checks with versioned transformations and tests.
Performance & Observability
Query tuning, plan analysis, vacuum/ANALYZE strategy, connection pooling, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
Migrations & Automation
Zero‑downtime migrations, data backfills, environment promotion, infra-as-code, and rollout automation.
Security & Compliance
Role-based access control, secrets management, encryption at rest/in transit, audit trails, and PII minimization.
Full‑Service Delivery
From discovery and architecture to implementation, handover, and training—done with clear documentation.
Selected Work
Request a detailed case study →Plato Medical Migration (2005 → Modern SaaS)
Migrated a 20-year-old Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system for a multi-site medical center to a modern SaaS platform. Involved full data model redesign, multilingual patient data handling, compliance alignment, and zero-downtime cutover planning. Delivered with real-time role-based permissions and automated validation pipelines.
- Operational from day-1 across all sites with 0 hours downtime
- Complex medical dataset normalized, remediated, and validated
- <250ms p95 latency for key queries after optimization
- Automated daily data-quality checks and exception alerts
- Coordinated cross-team project management and vendor negotiations
Dental Clinic Legacy Migration (1998 → Modern SaaS)
Migrated a multilingual, legacy system (1998 era) for a multi‑location dental group to a modern SaaS platform. Included complex data mapping, quality remediation, and cutover planning for 20+ dentists.
- Operational day‑1 across multiple locations (20+ dentists)
- Complex foreign‑language dataset normalized and validated
- Minimal disruption: staged rehearsal and assisted go‑live
- Handled project management and account coordination end‑to‑end
Email Operations & SLA Hub
Implemented shared‑inbox analytics and tagging with SLA breach alerts. Reduced response times and improved triage accuracy.
- 24‑hour SLA met 98% of the time
- Clear escalation runbooks
- Onboarding docs & training
Device Inventory & Telemetry
Single source of truth for connected devices with labeling, contact chains, and vendor references; added lightweight telemetry and alerts.
- >95% asset coverage
- Traceable service IDs
- Faster incident resolution
Expertise Highlights
Complex legacy conversions, BigQuery excellence, and dataset forensics that make new systems possible.
Complex Legacy → Modern Data Stacks
Deep experience converting monolithic, undocumented databases into clean, relational models with versioned pipelines.
- From spaghetti schemas to audited lineage
- Backfills with checksums & idempotency
- Zero‑downtime cutovers with rehearsal
BigQuery & Google Cloud Mastery
High‑performance analytics in BigQuery with partitioning, clustering, UDFs, and cost‑guardrails across GCP.
- Materialized views & scheduled queries
- Data governance with IAM & Policies
- Observability with GCS + Cloud Monitoring
CSI for Datasets — New System Readiness
Forensics on chaotic data to unlock new systems. Where no one can, I can — deducing truth from messy inputs.
- Profiling, anomaly detection, remediation
- Mapping to destination contracts & SLAs
- Proven playbooks for regulated domains
Tech Stack
The right tool for the job—favoring boring, proven tech for reliability and cost control, adopting new tools when they measurably reduce risk or latency.
How I Deliver
Discover
Map objectives, constraints, data flows, and SLOs. Establish success criteria and risks.
Design
Schema, access, rollout plan, and observability. Dry‑run migration with rehearsal and rollback.
Implement
Infrastructure as code, CI/CD for database changes, backfills, and cutover execution.
Operate
Dashboards, alerting, runbooks, and weekly ops review with continuous tuning.
"Kevin absorbs complexity and returns clean systems. He's reliable under pressure and ships with documentation and guardrails."
"Professional work ethic and truly reliable. Kevin communicates clearly, meets deadlines, and brings structure to complex projects. He made our data transition smooth and well‑documented. I would work with him again without hesitation."
Let's make your data reliable
Send a short brief, existing pain points, and any constraints. You'll get a pragmatic plan and a fast start.
Typical response within 1 business day.