Douglas Hawthorne
Independent Open Source Game Developer at Self-employed
Greater Sydney Area Australia
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Top SchoolDouglas Hawthorne is a retired Oracle DBA turned independent open source game developer based in Greater Sydney, bringing eight years of formal experience and two decades of hands-on database operations across education and telecommunications. He built and automated large-scale Oracle and SQL Server upgrades—authoring a BASH toolkit that supported 200+ Oracle upgrades—and led DBA teams responsible for hundreds of production databases and intensive performance tuning. Comfortable with both deep operational work (RMAN, Data Guard, AWR/ASH) and automation (Grafana, PagerDuty integrations, exploratory Ansible use), he now applies that discipline to designing accessible, community-driven free-to-play games with open source code and assets. His background in predictive capacity modelling and mentoring DBAs informs a pragmatic engineering approach that balances performance, reliability and learnability.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
M.Internetworking Networks, M.Internetworking Networks at University of Technology Sydney
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Github Skills (28)
benchmark10
hammerdb10
tpc10
benchmarking9
db29
databases9
oracle9
load-testing8
oracle-12c8
sql8
testing8
mariadb8
mysql8
postgresql8
oltp7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dfhawthorne/oracle-db-build
Jan 2021 - Jan 2024
Contributions:4 releases, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
dfhawthorne/Linux_Programming_Interface
Sep 2019 - Oct 2024
Contributions:153 pushes, 1 branch, 5 comments in 5 years 1 month
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