Summary
Jeffrey Adams is a seasoned Database Administrator and Cloud Database Engineer with over 20 years of experience designing and operating high‑availability SQL Server and MySQL platforms across Azure, AWS, and hybrid environments. He specializes in performance tuning, automation, and HA/DR engineering for revenue‑critical payment and financial systems, having ensured 24×7 stability and low latency for mission‑critical transaction workloads. Jeffrey has led modernization and reliability initiatives—building automation with PowerShell and Bash, architecting Always On and clustering solutions, and executing zero‑downtime upgrades and large migrations. Comfortable as a sole DBA or a technical lead, he combines hands‑on troubleshooting with architectural vision and a history of mentoring teams and improving operational runbooks. Based in the Denver area, he brings a pragmatic focus on measurable uptime and recoverability that stems from decades supporting financial production environments.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Drake University
Accountancy, Accountancy at Northern Illinois University
English