Summary
Steve Ledridge is a Senior SQL Server Database Administrator with over two decades of experience designing, tuning, and maintaining large-scale SQL Server environments across enterprise and cloud platforms. He currently manages hundreds of servers and databases at DLA Piper and has led large migrations and upgrades to Azure and SQL Server 2022 while building CI/CD pipelines and automation for database deployments. Known for deep expertise in query and process tuning, high-availability architectures (Availability Groups), and disaster recovery, he pairs hands-on T-SQL, SQL CLR, PowerShell and C# work with pragmatic operational tooling. Steve has a track record of creating inventive automation—such as PII scrubbing engines for backups and multi-threaded file-handling CLR routines—that reduce risk and operational load. Comfortable partnering with development teams and security/compliance stakeholders, he’s equally focused on preventing incidents as on quickly resolving them. Based in Seattle, he combines legacy migration experience with modern cloud practices to optimize performance and reliability at scale.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
CS, CS at Clark College
High School Diploma, Electronics, High School Diploma, Electronics at Columbia River High School