Karl Levik
Senior Research Database Engineer
Vale of White Horse, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorKarl Levik is a Senior Research Database Engineer with 17 years of database, software development, and operations experience, and a decade focused on production MariaDB Galera clusters. At Diamond Light Source he manages mission-critical Galera + MaxScale environments, designs schema and stored-procedure APIs, and led migrations from Oracle and VMs into Kubernetes-based pipelines. Certified in MariaDB (2018) and PostgreSQL (2023), he blends hands‑on DBA operations—backup, HA, query tuning—with application-level work in Python and Java. His background in structural molecular biology (PG Dip. with distinction) informs a measured, research-driven approach to data integrity and reproducibility. Known for practical automation (LVM snapshots, CFengine, Git-backed repos) and incident investigation, he thrives on turning complex scientific data flows into reliable production services.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
English, Norwegian, German
Github Skills (89)
sql-client10
postgresql10
sqlpl10
metadata10
db210
erd10
nosql10
dbeaver10
sql10
experiment10
pulsar-edit10
database10
sqlite10
database-access10
mysql10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
KarlLevik/db-reports
Feb 2019 - May 2022
Generates spreadsheet (xlsx) from a RockMaker database, attaches it to an email
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
xlsxpythonsql-serverxlsx-spreadsheetemail
KarlLevik/SynchWeb
Dec 2015 - Jul 2019
ISPyB web application
Contributions:17 pushes in 3 years 8 months
asgipythonpyodideweb-applicationispyb
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