Grant Fritchey
Product Advocate
Sapulpa, Oklahoma, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGrant Fritchey is a seasoned data professional and Product Advocate with over three decades of experience as a developer and DBA, currently shaping product direction at Redgate Software. He combines deep expertise in database design and performance tuning with a talent for teaching—authoring multiple books and crafting structured learning plans for Azure, AWS, and data practitioners. A long-time community leader, Grant served as PASS President and remains active as a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and AWS Community Builder, translating real-world platform challenges into practical guidance. His background ranges from enterprise systems to boutique shops, and he pairs hands-on troubleshooting of execution plans with advocacy that helps teams ship reliable, performant data-driven applications. Outside tech he brings disciplined mentorship from roles as a Boy Scouts volunteer, karate sensei, and Past Master in Freemasonry—traits that inform his clear, service-focused approach to product and community work.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
School of Visual Arts
English, German
Stackoverflow
2,705reputation
227kreached
142answers
4questions
flyway
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azure-sql-database
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sql-server
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Github Skills (58)
tsql10
microsoft-sql10
sql-server10
sql10
mssql10
microsoft-sql-server10
data-studio9
microsoft9
azure-sql9
azure-sql-server9
cosmosdb9
azure-sql-database9
flyway9
wordpress-plugin9
azure-data-studio9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ScaryDBA/LearningPostgreSQL
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Public access to the code created in a series of articles as I learn PostgreSQL
Contributions:1 review, 41 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year
postgresqlpostgresql-databasepostgres
ScaryDBA/Redgate
Jun 2019 - Nov 2022
This is code for Redgate testing and articles
Contributions:22 PRs, 24 pushes, 22 branches in 3 years 5 months
testingredgate
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