Maxime Daniou
Database Reliability Engineer
Zürich Metropolitan Area Switzerland
Summary
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SeniorMaxime Daniou is a Database Reliability Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing, migrating and hardening SQL Server estates across banking, ecommerce and cloud environments. He combines deep operational expertise in Always On availability, performance tuning, automation with PowerShell/DSC and backup workflows with practical experience migrating thousands of databases to VMware and Azure. A long-time contributor to the widely used SqlServerDsc community module, he has extended availability group features, added database-level health checks and improved automated testing—work that shows his focus on reliable, testable infrastructure. Maxime runs his own consultancy, helping organisations turn sprawling, ad hoc database deployments into maintainable business assets, and he’s comfortable operating at both the tactical incident level and the strategic architecture level. Based in the Zurich area, he pairs conviction-driven decision making with a continual learning mindset that tolerates imperfect choices so they can be iterated and improved.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
French, English
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Github Skills (7)
testing10
sql-server10
pester10
database-administration9
ssms6
tsql6
powerbi5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dsccommunity/SqlServerDsc
Aug 2017 - Jan 2019
This module contains DSC resources for deployment and configuration of Microsoft SQL Server.
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:5 commits, 11 PRs, 85 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Maxime primarily contributed to the `sqlserverdsc` repository, which focuses on deploying and configuring Microsoft SQL Server. Their commits focused on enhancing the `xSQLServerAlwaysOnAvailabilityGroup` resource by adding database-level health detection, per-database DTC support, and improving the BasicAvailabilityGroup feature. Additionally, the user added parameters to the `SqlSetup` resource for configuring startup types for SQL Server services. They also added an integration test for SqlServerEndpoint. These changes indicate a focus on expanding the functionality and improving the testing of the resources within the DSC module.
sql-servermdtmicrosoft-sql-serverdeploymentdsc
mdaniou/IT-Resources
Jun 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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