Summary
Mitch Wheat is a database consultant with 13 years of experience specialising in design, development, maintenance and performance tuning of business-critical database and BI systems. Based in Perth, he has deep hands-on expertise across SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL and Oracle, with particularly notable work improving Microsoft database solutions for clients such as Rio Tinto, CashConverters, Navitas and Main Roads WA. He routinely delivers rapid, configuration- and code-level optimisations that produce measurable business benefits and oversees the health of multiple high-profile production systems. Equally comfortable in systems programming and data science, he is fluent in C-family languages, Python, R and VB and applies algorithms, data structures and statistical learning to real-world problems. A four-time Microsoft MVP, active StackOverflow contributor and former coordinator of the Perth .NET User Group, he regularly presents technical topics to practitioner communities and documents insights on his blog.
13 years of coding experience
BSc (Hons), Mathematics, BSc (Hons), Mathematics at University of Warwick