Andy Levy
Senior Data Platform Engineer
City of Canandaigua, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAndy Levy is a Senior Data Platform Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience optimizing SQL Server environments, automating administration, and streamlining migrations. Based in Canandaigua, NY, he blends deep database administration and SQL tuning expertise with PowerShell-driven systems integration to reduce runtimes, shrink maintenance windows, and standardize backups across large estates. He has led migrations and monitoring rollouts (SolarWinds SQL Sentry/SentryOne) and authored operational documentation and onboarding processes to scale DBA and analytics teams. A long-time contributor to the popular open-source dbatools PowerShell toolkit, Andy has improved maintenance functions, backup handling, and documentation used by SQL Server DBAs worldwide. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex production performance problems into reliable, automated solutions—and he often surfaces practical process improvements that prevent repeat incidents.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Clarkson University
English
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Github Skills (22)
database-migrations10
svn10
tortoise-svn10
windows10
authentication10
sql-server10
powershell10
database-migration10
batchfile9
string-comparison9
sql9
cmd9
documentation9
invoke9
version-control9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dataplat/dbatools
Jul 2017 - Oct 2022
🚀 SQL Server automation and instance migrations have never been safer, faster or freer
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:200 commits, 89 PRs, 66 comments in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily focused on modifying and enhancing the functions related to database maintenance and administration within the `dbatools` repository, which is a SQL Server automation and instance migration toolkit. Their contributions included adding support for new features, updating help documentation, and fixing inconsistencies in casing within existing functions. They also addressed code and documentation issues related to improved handling of file paths and database backups.
sqlserverbackupsaferserver-automationsql-server
alevyinroc/Presentations
Apr 2015 - Sep 2024
Contributions:50 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 7 months
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