Dave Pitts
Senior Database Engineer
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Pitts is a Senior Database Engineer with 25 years in IT and over two decades of deep Oracle expertise complemented by seven years of hands-on Postgres work, including migrating hundreds of databases from Oracle to Postgres and operating some of the busiest Postgres instances globally. He blends strong Unix scripting (bash, Python, some Perl), performance tuning, and real-world cloud experience (AWS/RDS, virtualised Linux) with a history of leading and building global DBA teams across Europe, India, and the US. Comfortable moving between individual contributor and leadership roles, he has driven cost-saving RDS optimisations, complex replication topologies, and bespoke monitoring/diagnostic tooling that ties database internals to application-level traces. A Cambridge-level mathematician by training (BA Maths, Oxford) with an MSc in Software Engineering, he also holds multiple Oracle and Microsoft certifications and a track record at major tech firms including Adyen, Gartner, Blackboard, and ServiceNow. Based in Madrid, he brings a rare mix of low-level database internals knowledge, scripting-driven automation, and cross-cultural team building—plus a demonstrated ability to translate deep technical diagnostics into clear operational improvements.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA Hons, Mathematics, BA Hons, Mathematics at University of OxfordPGCE, Maths and Information Technology, PGCE, Maths and Information Technology at University of Liverpool
Github Skills (65)
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renewable-energy9
python8
testing7
steam6
monitoring6
compatibility5
steamworks5
simulate4
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dgapitts/bash-by-example
May 2020 - Jul 2024
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
dgapitts/learning-cockroach
Apr 2021 - Jan 2024
Contributions:69 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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