Steven Libby
Senior Database Administrator
Vernon Hills, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Libby is a Senior Database Administrator with nine years of hands-on experience designing, tuning, and operating high-performance relational databases and ETL pipelines across public and private sectors. He has progressed from hands-on technical support and network administration to architecting large-scale MySQL/TokuDB deployments and optimizing terabyte-scale workloads, and now leads database operations at VitalSource. Known for bridging development and operations, he pairs SQL and Linux expertise with automation and scripting to improve performance, reliability, and team efficiency. Past roles include database architecture for federal clients and application systems design, giving him a strong background in both UI/backend integration and ops-driven scalability. Based in Vernon Hills, IL, he brings a practical, results-oriented approach—evident in past projects that boosted backup success rates and system throughput—while maintaining a knack for mentoring and process improvement.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Information Systems Security, Bachelor of Science, Information Systems Security at ITT Technical Institute
EnglishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
slibby05/rice
May 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:91 commits, 71 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
slibby05/thesis
Dec 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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