David Marshall
Principal Database Administrator
Greater Portsmouth Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Marshall is a Principal Database Administrator with over 25 years of hands-on experience designing, tuning, and safeguarding enterprise databases across Oracle, SQL Server and PostgreSQL. Based in the Greater Portsmouth area, he currently leads database strategy and operations at the University of Portsmouth after senior roles at organisations including Cisco, Dell, dunnhumby and Affinion Group. His deep expertise spans RAC, ASM, Data Guard and RMAN as well as cross-platform OS environments (HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, Linux, Windows), enabling reliable high-availability and disaster recovery for mission-critical systems. Known for pragmatic performance tuning and robust backup/recovery architectures, he also brings scripting fluency (Perl, Shell, PowerShell) that automates maintenance and security tasks. Colleagues rely on him to stabilise complex estates and translate operational risk into actionable, auditable processes.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BTEC National, Computer Science, BTEC National, Computer Science at Bradford College
Github Skills (30)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
davidmarshall15/Healbot
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Healbot
Contributions:14 releases, 3 commits, 41 PRs in 9 days
chatbotbot
davidmarshall15/HealBot
Jan 2015 - Jan 2023
Contributions:461 commits, 13 pushes in 8 years 1 month
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