Kenneth Neal
Lead Innovation Engineer
Prairieville, Louisiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKenneth Neal is a Lead Innovation Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building and stabilizing data-driven systems at Louisiana Blue, where he progressed from Senior DBA roles to lead Site Reliability and innovation initiatives. He specializes in RDBMS performance tuning, reliability engineering, and data infrastructure—skills reinforced by an Azure Data Fundamentals certification and a track record of improving system stability for critical insurance services. As president of Baton Rouge SQL and User Groups since 2020, he blends community leadership with practical ops discipline, mentoring peers and fostering local technical talent. Known for meticulous, detail-oriented database management, he also brings a pragmatic innovation mindset that translates exploratory ideas into production-ready, auditable solutions. Based in Prairieville, Louisiana, Kenneth pairs institutional knowledge of healthcare insurance systems with a steady focus on reliability and measurable operational improvements.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, General Studies, Bachelor's degree, General Studies at Louisiana State University
Github Skills (14)
migration9
backup9
powershell8
sql-server8
database8
mssql7
database-administration7
sql6
mysql5
postgresql5
db25
automation5
oracle5
python4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
KennyNeal/dbatools
Jun 2017 - Mar 2024
PowerShell module to help SQL Server Pros be more productive
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 10 months
sql-serverpowershellsqlproductivepowershell-module
KennyNeal/kennyneal.github.io
Jun 2022 - Mar 2025
SQLSATBR
Contributions:2 reviews, 166 PRs, 324 pushes in 2 years 9 months
sqlpython
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