Dale Hirt
DevOps Engineer at Mavis Tire
Kenmore, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDale Hirt is a seasoned DevOps and SRE professional with 11+ years designing and operating resilient cloud and database systems, most recently leading DevOps at Mavis Tire after five years of senior engineering roles at Microsoft. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Azure resource management (Bicep, PowerShell), SQL Server disaster recovery and performance tuning, and internal testing frameworks to keep large-scale services reliable and efficient. A pragmatic problem-solver and lifelong learner, Dale contributed notable fixes to the widely used BrentOzarULTD SQL Server First Responder Kit, improving restoration and backup behaviors. Based in Kenmore, WA, he balances technical leadership with real-world constraints and brings uncommon perspective as a data wrangler and father of five who codes for stability and scale.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Business Administration, Masters of Business Administration at Western Washington University
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Github Skills (13)
microsoft-sql-server10
sql-server10
database-administration10
sql10
tsql10
first-responder9
stater-kit9
responder9
starter-kit9
health-check9
responders9
sp-blitz8
blitz7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
BrentOzarULTD/SQL-Server-First-Responder-Kit
Jun 2016 - Nov 2021
sp_Blitz, sp_BlitzCache, sp_BlitzFirst, sp_BlitzIndex, and other SQL Server scripts for health checks and performance tuning.
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Dale primarily contributed to the `sp_AllNightLog` stored procedure, which is part of the First Responder Kit for SQL Server. Their work focused on modifying the procedure's logic related to database restoration, backup processes, and configuration settings. The changes involved fixing data type conversions, ensuring system databases are not affected, and enabling the movement of data and log files to default locations during restoration.
health-checkssp-blitzsql-serverserver-scriptsmicrosoft-sql-server
dalehhirt/mail-trends
Apr 2017 - Jan 2023
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Contributions:3 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 10 months
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