Dennis Heltzel
Senior DBA And Solution Architect at COMSPOC
Pottstown, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolDennis Heltzel is a Senior DBA and Solution Architect with over 20 years focused on Oracle, experienced as both systems and development DBA across high‑uptime SaaS and FinTech environments. He architects scalable Oracle solutions (8i through 19c, multi-tenant) and writes performant PL/SQL, often integrating bash and Linux administration to automate complex operational tasks. His work includes major platform migrations and hardware refreshes (Appliance, Exadata), large-scale partitioning and compression strategies, and zero-downtime code deployment practices pioneered in production. Comfortable leading cross-site automation projects and data retention/legal compliance efforts, he pairs deep internals knowledge with pragmatic scripting to manage thousands of partitions and rapidly growing data volumes. Based in Pottstown, PA, he also shares useful DBA tooling and code to help peers, reflecting a collaborative, operationally minded approach to database engineering.
11 years of coding experience
HS Diploma, HS Diploma at Francis Scott Key HSThe University of Maryland, College ParkProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
dwheltzel/dbadmin_packages
Sep 2021 - Aug 2023
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 28 pushes in 1 year 11 months
dwheltzel/Shell-Scripts-for-Oracle-DBAs
Aug 2014 - Mar 2022
Contributions:54 commits, 43 pushes in 7 years 8 months
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