Taiob Ali
Database Solutions Manager, IT-Infrastructure
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolTaiob Ali is a Database Solutions Manager based in Boston with over 20 years working on Microsoft Data Platform and MongoDB across on-premises and cloud environments. He leads a distributed, 24x7 data team spanning three continents, driving migrations that cut on-premises footprint by 40% and modernizing SQL Server workloads into Azure Data Lake, Databricks, Synapse and Data Factory. A Microsoft MVP (Data Platform), he blends deep hands-on DBA skills—Always On Availability Groups, enterprise monitoring, backup and storage optimization—with cloud-native automation and runbook-driven operations. His career spans high-throughput, mission-critical systems (including large-scale healthcare and high-traffic web platforms) and practical wins such as halving pager noise and reducing backup times by 40%. Unusually for a data leader, he draws on early maritime logistics experience and a naval science degree, giving him operational discipline and global coordination instincts. He holds an MSc in Computer Science and is known for pragmatic, low-risk migration strategies that preserve uptime while modernizing infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Naval Science, BSc, Naval Science at Newcastle UniversityUMass Lowell
English, Bengali
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (56)
microsoft10
data-studio10
tsql10
microsoft-sql10
azure-sql-database10
database-administration10
microsoft-azure10
azure-sql10
migration10
azure-sql-server10
cosmosdb10
azure-data-studio10
sql-server10
data-tools10
powerbi10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sqlworldwide/Presentations
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
All presentations and demo code
Contributions:172 commits, 166 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
sqlworldwide/sql-docs
May 2020 - Sep 2024
Technical documentation for Microsoft SQL Server, tools such as SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) , SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) etc.
Contributions:1 PR, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
data-servertechnical-documentationsqlserversql-serversql-server-management-studio
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