Ilmar Kerm
Senior Database Administrator
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
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Top SchoolIlmar Kerm is a Senior Database Administrator with over 20 years of hands-on experience and a decade of focused enterprise DBA work, currently based in Stockholm. He designs and automates resilient database infrastructure across Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL and NoSQL platforms, with deep expertise in RAC, Data Guard, GoldenGate, Patroni and immutable backup strategies. Comfortable from bare-metal RAC deployments to cloud-native AWS automation using Terraform, Ansible and HashiCorp Vault, he also leads complex migrations and cross-platform replication (including Debezium). A long-time Oracle community speaker and former Oracle ACE program member, he combines operational rigor from PCI-compliant environments with developer-facing tooling like ORDS/APEX. Less obvious: he blends low-level system administration experience (hardware, networking, virtualization) with automation-first practices, making him equally effective troubleshooting infrastructure as he is architecting cloud DB platforms.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Informatics, BS, Informatics at Tallinn University of TechnologyKuusalu Secondary School
English, Estonian, Swedish, Russian
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Github Skills (52)
oracle-cloud10
single-instance10
oracle-database10
oracle10
adapter8
cx-oracle8
driver8
verification8
plsql7
backup7
metadata7
ansible7
governance6
metadata-management6
jmespath6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kindredgroup/oracle-imagecopy-backup
Oct 2016 - Nov 2017
Toolset for helping DBAs manage incrementally updated image copy backups of Oracle Databases. Includes automatic restore and verification tests.
Contributions:25 commits, 6 PRs, 68 pushes in 1 year
restoredatabasescopy-imageoracleupdated
ilmarkerm/mysql-with-oracle-clusterware-scripts
Jan 2016 - Jan 2020
Bash scripts to help managing MySQL instances with Oracle Clusterware
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 4 years
instancesmysqlbash-scriptsbashoracle
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