David Kurtz
Oracle Database Performance Consultant
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Kurtz is an Oracle Database Performance Consultant with over three decades of hands-on experience tuning Oracle RDBMS from v5.1 through 19c, including Exadata platforms. He specialises in end-to-end system performance for Oracle and PeopleSoft ERP environments, combining deep DBA expertise with practical PeopleSoft knowledge honed since 1996. David has operated as a trusted troubleshooter and technical architect across consultancy and industry roles, available for short-notice engagements or longer projects. His career spans senior positions from developer/DBA to associate director, demonstrating both technical depth and client-facing consultancy skills. Based in Dublin, he pairs academic grounding in applied physics with a pragmatic, results-driven approach to squeezing measurable performance out of complex systems. An approachable problem-solver, he often bridges gaps between application behaviour and database internals to deliver effective, low-risk optimisations.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Carmel CollegeUniversity College London
English
Github Skills (18)
build-script10
peoplesoft10
partition9
utility8
ddl7
script6
prometheus6
cross-reference6
generator6
kubernetes6
statistics5
classes4
azerothcore3
dedicated-server2
management2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
davidkurtz/PTRef
Jun 2019 - Mar 2022
PeopleTools Tables Cross-Reference Generator
Contributions:24 commits, 1 PR, 23 pushes in 2 years 9 months
generatorutilitycross-reference
davidkurtz/nVision
Jul 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 release, 44 commits, 14 PRs in 5 years 5 months
peoplesoft
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