Michael Krafick
Lead DB2 Database Engineer
Suwanee, Georgia, United States
Summary
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SeniorMichael Krafick is a Lead DB2 Database Engineer with two decades of hands-on experience architecting and operating high‑transaction OLTP and data warehouse systems for banking, insurance, and large e‑commerce platforms. Based in Suwanee, Georgia, he drives DevOps adoption and environment lifecycles at Sherwin‑Williams, specializing in Db2 within IBM/HCL Commerce and Sterling Order Management while also supporting SQL Server, MongoDB, and MariaDB. He has a proven track record of large‑scale performance tuning, compression, partitioning, and automation—delivering measurable gains like multi‑terabyte size reductions and significant speed improvements. Michael pairs deep operational expertise with strategic guidance, having led onshore teams for some of the world’s largest DB2 deployments and implemented agile practices as a certified Scrum Master. Known in the IBM Information Management community as an IBM Champion and self‑described “DB2 computer geek,” he balances geeky technical depth with a surprising off‑shift ambition: aspiring to be a Zamboni driver.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (5)
windows6
sqlalchemy6
python6
hugo2
jekyll2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
MKrafick/DBMonitoring
May 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:17 commits, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
MKrafick/DBUtilityScripts
May 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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