Christopher Lawrence
Sr System Engineer - Database
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Lawrence is a senior system engineer and seasoned DBA with over two decades of hands-on experience in Oracle and SQL Server environments, and more than a decade at enterprise scale. He holds an OCP-DBA credential and has led large platform upgrades and migrations—most notably consolidating unsupported Oracle platforms to 12c/11g while designing GMP-compliant documentation and change controls for FDA-audited systems. At Novo Nordisk he built and enforced migration standards across development, validation, and production, and completed a leadership development program that prepared him to step into people management and act as a reliable second-in-command to IT leadership. His background spans regulated industries and complex applications including PeopleSoft payroll, where he combined technical administration with process-driven configuration management. Based in Raleigh, NC, he brings a practical blend of systems-level tuning, compliance-aware design, and stakeholder coordination that helps bridge engineering and operations.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at The University of Southern MississippiRESURRECTION CATHOLIC MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL
Github Skills (71)
testing9
aws9
continuous-integration9
developer-tools8
lambda8
python8
dotnet-sdk8
aws-lambda8
serverless7
omnisharp7
authentication7
identitymodel7
serverless-framework7
openid7
csharp7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
christopher-lawrence/dotfiles
Jan 2022 - Feb 2025
configuration files
Contributions:1 PR, 75 pushes in 3 years 2 months
wyle-e-coyote/Astronomy
Dec 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:39 commits, 8 pushes in 1 month
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