Summary
Angela Liao is a senior database administrator with 9 years in her current title and over two decades of hands-on experience managing large-scale, 24/7 production database environments across financial and e-commerce sectors. She specializes in Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL while also supporting Sybase, UDB, Oracle, Postgres, Redis and MongoDB, with deep expertise in replication, high availability and disaster recovery architectures on Windows and UNIX/Linux. Angela has a proven track record of designing consolidation and migration strategies that minimize downtime during upgrades and data center moves, and she builds automation and monitoring tooling to standardize operations and speed incident response. A mentor and trainer, she combines rigorous electrical engineering training (BE, MEng) with a pragmatic focus on performance tuning, root-cause troubleshooting and emerging-technology POCs. Notably, her career spans mission-critical trading and banking systems integration with external stakeholders like Fed/CHIPS/SWIFT, showing both technical depth and operational collaboration under high-stakes conditions.
9 years of coding experience
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Electrical Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Electrical Engineering at The City College of New York
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electrical Engineering at City University of New York City College