Rick Pizzi
Senior Database Engineer
Spello, Umbria, Italy
Summary
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SeniorRick Pizzi is a Senior Database Engineer with over 25 years in IT and a decade focused on open-source databases, specializing in MySQL and MariaDB administration, performance tuning, and complex troubleshooting. He has deep hands-on experience across Linux, networking, SAN, AWS, Google Cloud, VPNs and Kubernetes, and has built and maintained production DBaaS infrastructure and backup tooling adopted by a SkySQL platform. Rick has led distributed DBA teams, introduced high-availability and disaster recovery architectures, and automated developer-safe production query execution to accelerate delivery. His career spans startups, ISPs he co-founded, telco-grade operations and enterprise-scale database migrations, reflecting strong systems, storage and middleware expertise. Known for persistence and root-cause hunting, he regularly turns obscure production incidents into durable fixes rather than quick patches. Based in Spello, Italy, he blends long-memory operational wisdom with daily Kubernetes practice and a passion for tooling that scales.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
English
Stackoverflow
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469reached
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Github Skills (15)
python7
socat6
linux6
cli5
amazon-s35
backup5
systemd5
system4
command-line-tool4
init3
xtrabackup3
s3cmd2
graph1
vt1001
firefox1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
RickPizzi/pztools
May 2019 - Jan 2023
scripts & tools that help my everyday DBA tasks
Contributions:24 commits, 119 pushes in 3 years 8 months
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RickPizzi/televideo_screensaver
Sep 2023 - Sep 2023
A fork of sclocka tailored for televideo terminals with some improvements
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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