Marcin Gminski
Founder at Sargable Group
York, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMarcin Gminski is a founder and SQL Server specialist with over eight years of focused experience building cloud-native monitoring and data solutions from a DBA’s perspective. As founder of SQLWATCH and owner of Sargable Group, he designs pragmatic tooling and services for high availability, migrations, and operational visibility across SQL Server estates. He is an active contributor to the widely used dbatools PowerShell project, where he extended timeline visualizations and helper functions that improve troubleshooting of agent jobs and backups. Marcin also co-founded Bedrock Data and consults as a data engineer, blending hands-on administration with pipeline and integration expertise. Based in York, he leads the Microsoft Data Platform user group locally, reflecting a commitment to community-driven knowledge sharing. Notably, his design philosophy—“every environment is a production environment for someone”—drives a focus on monitoring all systems, not just the most important ones.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Telecommunications Engineering at Wyższa Szkoła Informatyki w ŁodziCert Databases, Cert Databases at Stanford University
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Github Skills (9)
microsoft-sql-server10
powershell10
sql-server10
databases10
database10
mssqlserver10
migration9
backup9
mssql8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dataplat/dbatools
Aug 2018 - Mar 2019
🚀 SQL Server automation and instance migrations have never been safer, faster or freer
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 28 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Marcin contributed significantly to the `dataplat/dbatools` repository, a PowerShell module for SQL Server automation. Their primary focus was on extending the `ConvertTo-DbaTimeline` function, creating visualizations of SQL Server tasks, and incorporating it into the toolset. The user also added helper functions to format dates and convert status codes for the timeline feature, demonstrating an understanding of SQL Server agent jobs and backup history. Throughout the commits, there is an evident focus on enhancing the existing functionality and improving the user experience within the `dbatools` ecosystem.
sqlserverbackupsaferserver-automationsql-server
marcingminski/sqlwatch
Aug 2018 - Oct 2022
SQL Server Performance Monitor
Contributions:64 releases, 1 review, 1272 commits in 4 years 3 months
performance-monitoringsqlservermonitorsql-serversql
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