Marissa Ciesla
Database Administrator II
Buffalo, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorMarissa Ciesla is a Database Administrator II with nine years of focused experience making databases serve the business, not the reverse. She blends deep SQL Server and MongoDB expertise with performance tuning, ETL and data warehousing, and applies a modern Agile/DevOps mindset to DBA and development work. Comfortable across Microsoft .NET, Linux and open-source stacks, she also supports commercial platforms like RSA Archer and explores emerging cloud and NoSQL patterns. Marissa brings a niche strength in geospatial data and GIS, complemented by practical scripting skills in Python, shell and JavaScript. Her career spans media, finance and enterprise software—roles at DreamWorks, M&T Bank and others—demonstrating adaptability across high-demand production environments. Based in Buffalo, NY, she describes herself as a "geospatial hacker," reflecting a hands-on curiosity for unconventional data problems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
131reputation
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1answer
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Github Skills (4)
geojson8
mongodb8
geospatial8
python7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rtbigdata/geojson-mongo-import.py
May 2017 - May 2017
Import GeoJSON file into MongoDB using Python
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
geojsonmongodbpythongeojson-mongogeospatial
rtbigdata/rtbigdata.github.io
Nov 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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