Shawn Melton
Senior Azure Cloud Engineer at Presidio
Montgomery, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolShawn Melton is a Senior Azure Cloud Engineer with nine years of focused experience architecting and automating cloud and data platform solutions for enterprise customers. He combines deep SQL Server and PowerShell expertise with practical IaC and Kubernetes skills, having delivered cost-saving Azure VM and platform deployments and built repeatable CI/CD and IaC workflows. Shawn contributes to well-known community projects like dbatools and dbachecks, improving documentation and adding functionality that makes SQL Server automation safer and more usable. He’s comfortable in both professional services and product environments, having moved from consulting and DoD-supported roles into cloud-native engineering at companies like loanDepot and Presidio. Known for translating complex operational needs into clear runbooks and reusable automation, he also brings a habit of refining docs and examples so teams actually adopt the tools he builds. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, Shawn blends practical on-prem-to-cloud migration experience with a developer-first approach to operations.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Data Communications, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Data Communications at Auburn University at Montgomery
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Github Skills (14)
powershell10
databases10
sql-server10
pester10
database-administration10
database10
tsql9
documentation9
azure-pipelines6
azure-sql-database6
azure6
azure-virtual-networks6
azure-rbac6
terraform6
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Github contributions (5)
dataplat/dbatools
Dec 2016 - Jan 2023
🚀 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:489 reviews, 1538 commits, 660 PRs in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Shawn contributed to the `dataplat/dbatools` project, a PowerShell module designed for SQL Server automation. The commits primarily focus on enhancing the functionality of the module's commands, specifically by adding features like tag support to help commands. Additionally, the user made formatting updates, and added support for multiple objects. This included updates to multiple commands, such as Get-DbaSpConfigure, Export-DbaDbRole and other related commands to enhance the modules functionality and performance.
sqlserverbackupsaferserver-automationsql-server
dataplat/dbachecks
Dec 2017 - Nov 2018
✔ SQL Server Environmental Validation
Role in this project:Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:18 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Shawn primarily focused on modifying and enhancing the documentation and examples within the `dbachecks` project. Their work included updating the help format, adjusting examples to remove unnecessary prefixes, and refining descriptions of the functions. These changes primarily targeted the readability and clarity of the documentation, improving the usability of the PowerShell module. They contributed to function-level documentation through the addition of .PARAMETER explanations, ensuring that users could understand the purpose and operation of each element.
dbatoolssqlserverdbasql-servervalidation
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