Maris Elsins
Principal Engineer at Pythian
Riga, Vidzeme, Latvia
Summary
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Top SchoolMaris Elsins is a Principal Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience designing and operating high-availability MySQL and Oracle database systems at scale, currently focused on SRE and managed database architecture. He has led multi-DBA teams, driven automation and monitoring initiatives, and delivered secure, performant features for managed database services at AWS before returning to Pythian in a senior technical role. Maris combines deep operational expertise—backup/restore, DR, performance tuning, and fault-tolerant architecture—with a strong track record of mentoring and process improvement through tooling like Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform and Git platforms. Based in Riga, Latvia, he brings a pragmatic blend of consulting, product-focused engineering, and public speaking experience from the Oracle community. Notably, his career moves reflect a rare cross-cloud perspective, assessing Oracle workloads across OCI, AWS and GCP while shaping security hardening for production database services.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s degree Computer science, Master’s degree Computer science at Latvijas Universitate
English, Latvian, Russian, German
Github Skills (6)
jar10
weblogic9
oracle7
patch5
git-repository3
gcp1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MarisElsins/TOOLS
Nov 2013 - Aug 2019
Contributions:63 commits, 2 PRs, 30 pushes in 5 years 9 months
MarisElsins/me-dba.com
Oct 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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