Shane Neill
Database Engineer
Ireland
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Top SchoolShane Neill is a Database Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience designing, tuning and automating SQL Server environments across payments and software companies. He progressed from junior DBA and support roles into senior distributed database administration at Global Payments, and now focuses on database engineering at Covalen. A committed contributor to prominent open-source projects like dbatools and dbachecks, Shane strengthens SQL Server automation and validation with practical PowerShell and T-SQL improvements. He combines rigorous recovery and configuration testing knowledge (including work on PseudoSimple recovery models and tempdb diagnostics) with a pragmatic troubleshooting background from early support roles. Based in Ireland, he pairs a Masters in Information Systems Management with a taste for food, coffee and whiskey—evidence of a pragmatic, detail-oriented engineer who enjoys the craft beyond the keyboard.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Information Systems Management, Masters Information Systems Management at University of Galway
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pester10
validations10
tsql10
databases10
database-administration10
validation10
sql-server10
powershell10
database10
testing9
mssql9
sql9
backup7
common-table-expression6
sql-migrations6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dataplat/dbachecks
Jan 2018 - Sep 2019
✔ SQL Server Environmental Validation
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:6 reviews, 12 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Shane primarily contributed to database validation and testing, focusing on SQL Server environments. They implemented and modified tests related to database recovery models, specifically "PseudoSimple." Additional contributions included adding tests for database configuration options like "Optimize for Ad Hoc Workloads". The user also updated the configuration and assertion files.
dbatoolssqlserverdbasql-servervalidation
dataplat/dbatools
Jan 2017 - Feb 2020
🚀 SQL Server automation and instance migrations have never been safer, faster or freer
Role in this project:Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:19 commits, 11 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Shane primarily contributed to the `dataplat/dbatools` repository, which focuses on SQL Server automation. Their commits modified PowerShell scripts related to SQL Server management, including functions for running T-SQL scripts (Invoke-Sqlcmd2), testing SQL connections (Test-SqlConnection), and retrieving tempdb usage information (Get-DbaTempdbUsage). Other commits involved bug fixes and improvements to existing functions, demonstrating a focus on refining the tool's functionality and addressing user issues.
sqlserverbackupsaferserver-automationsql-server
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