Doug Meyers
Data Architect
Hayward, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolDoug Meyers is a Data Architect with over 8 years of focused experience and a long-standing career in database administration spanning decades at Berkley Technology Services. He combines deep hands-on expertise in IBM DB2, SQL Server, Informix, performance tuning, Python and PowerShell with enterprise architecture and requirements analysis. As a major contributor to the well-known dbatools PowerShell project, he has improved automation for SQL Server migrations and extended-event management, showing a commitment to community tooling and production-grade reliability. Doug’s progression from DBA to Systems Architect and now Data Architect reflects a pragmatic blend of operational depth and systems-level thinking. Based in Hayward, Wisconsin, he brings a steady record of refactoring, testing, and deprecation-aware improvements that reduce operational risk in large environments.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's, Business, Management Information Services, Bachelor's, Business, Management Information Services at Dordt University
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Github Skills (15)
powershell10
databases10
sql-server10
database-administration10
mssql10
database10
sql-migrations9
db-migration9
migrate9
server-migration9
database-migration9
data-migration9
database-migrations9
migration6
backup4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
dataplat/dbatools
Oct 2017 - Mar 2019
🚀 SQL Server automation and instance migrations have never been safer, faster or freer
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:19 commits, 14 PRs, 12 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Doug contributed extensively to the `dbatools` repository, a PowerShell module for SQL Server automation. Their work focused on creating and modifying functions related to Extended Events sessions, specifically starting, stopping, and retrieving information about them. Additionally, they addressed issues related to database shrinking and user management, further enhancing the module's capabilities in database administration. They refactored the code, improved testing, and incorporated deprecation warnings to improve functionality and user experience.
sqlserverbackupsaferserver-automationsql-server
dgmyrs/dbatools
Oct 2017 - Mar 2019
PowerShell module to help SQL Server Pros be more productive
Contributions:16 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 4 months
sql-serverpowershellsqlproductivepowershell-module
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