With over a decade of experience and more than 10 years focused on enterprise-grade database administration, Hari Babu Dama is a results-driven Database Architect & Administration with deep expertise in building and optimizing secure, high-performance, and resilient database platforms within the financial services industry. He has successfully led cloud modernization, automation, and high-availability implementations for core banking systems, contributing to real-time transaction processing and operational excellence.
Hari has played a pivotal role in designing and executing cloud migration strategies, architecting DR frameworks, and implementing end-to-end automation using DevOps tools. His contributions have significantly improved uptime, compliance, and performance across global database infrastructures.
Key Accomplishments:
Led end-to-end modernization of financial database platforms, migrating business-critical workloads to Azure and private cloud while automating deployments through Ansible and Terraform.
Achieved >99.99% availability across cloud-based MySQL environments, introducing group replication and traffic routing via HAProxy and ProxySQL.
Designed disaster recovery frameworks including cross-region failover using RMAN and geo-redundant storage, enabling business continuity.
Reduced manual operations by 50% and operational incidents by 40% through automation, monitoring, and performance tuning using Prometheus, Grafana, and Azure-native tools.
Successfully delivered secure, compliant, and scalable database solutions through encryption, IAM policies, and integration of Liquibase, SonarQube, and Azure Key Vault.
Areas of Expertise:
Cloud & DevOps Platforms: Azure Cloud, Private Cloud, Terraform, Azure DevOps
Database Technologies: Oracle (10g–19c), MySQL (5.7/8.0), PostgreSQL, MongoDB
High Availability & DR: Oracle RAC, ASM, Dataguard, MySQL Group Replication, HAProxy
Automation & Monitoring: Jenkins, Ansible, RMAN, Prometheus, Grafana, Shell Scripting
Security & Governance: Data Encryption, IAM, Audit Logging, Data Masking, Compliance Readiness
Domain Focus: Core Banking, Financial Infrastructure, Regulated Environments
Short Version:
Hari Babu Dama is a forward-looking Database Architect & Administration specializing in secure, high-availability, and cloud-optimized data platforms. His leadership in modernization and automation has enabled resilient and scalable solutions powering mission-critical systems in the financial services sector.
