Summary
Andy Rivenes is a Product Manager in Oracle’s Database Development group with eight years focused on Database In-Memory and a long career background as an Oracle DBA, performance specialist, and application architect. He has driven ILM features such as Advanced Compression, Automatic Data Optimization, Heat Map, SecureFiles and DBFS, blending deep technical expertise with customer-facing product ownership. Prior to Oracle he built and supported large clustered RAC and multi-terabyte data warehouse deployments at LLNL and ran his own consulting practice, publishing open-source utilities and presenting widely at Oracle conferences. Based in Livermore, CA, he combines systems-level experience from mainframes to modern Oracle databases and a clear passion for SQL and performance tuning, often contributing pragmatic tools that ease real-world Oracle operations.
8 years of coding experience