Garry Bargsley
Sr. Database Administrator
Midlothian, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGarry Bargsley is a Senior SQL Server Database Administrator with nine years of focused experience building and operating large-scale, high-availability data platforms across on-premises and Azure environments. He has managed 300+ instances in enterprise settings, led major cloud migrations at TPG, and architected disaster recovery solutions that minimize downtime. A practical automation advocate, Garry leverages PowerShell to cut manual work by 70%+ and contributed targeted improvements to the popular dbatools module to make database discovery and migration safer and more reliable. Known for mentoring junior DBAs and driving cross-functional operational excellence, he’s now seeking Senior or Lead DBA roles to shape data platform strategy and team performance.
9 years of coding experience
Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS) Web and Application Development, Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS) Web and Application Development at Tarrant County College
Github Skills (8)
microsoft-sql-server10
powershell10
sql-server10
databases10
database10
mssqlserver10
database-administration9
backup9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dataplat/dbatools
Feb 2017 - Feb 2022
🚀 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:6 reviews, 142 commits, 77 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Garry's contributions center around modifying the `Get-DbaDatabase` and `Copy-SqlDatabase` functions within the dbatools PowerShell module. The changes involve adding, modifying and fixing parameters, the help text, and logic to better filter and retrieve database information. Further, the user added parameter text and corrected output formatting across various other functions such as `Get-DbaAudit`, `Get-DbaAgentCategory`, and multiple functions relating to SQL Agent tasks.
sqlserverbackupsaferserver-automationsql-server
gbargsley/dbatools
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:6 PRs, 63 pushes, 26 branches in 3 months
powershellpowershell-moduleproductive
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