Summary
Tony Z is a seasoned Database Administrator, Database Developer, and DataOps Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing, migrating, and operating relational and NoSQL systems across on-prem and cloud environments. He has driven production database services at companies like Enova, OnDeck, Turner, and Fiserv, working with PostgreSQL, Snowflake, MongoDB, Oracle, MySQL, Aurora and more, and has practical experience with AWS RDS/EC2 and MongoDB Atlas. Tony blends deep operational expertise—RAC, Data Guard, clustering and replication—with development skills in stored procedures, automation and data pipeline enablement to keep OLTP and analytics platforms performant and resilient. He has led migrations between on-prem and cloud, built disaster recovery practices, and implemented patching and maintenance processes that minimize downtime. Based in the Atlanta metro area, he pairs an MS in Information Systems focused on software development and data mining with a pragmatic, security-conscious approach to production systems. Less obvious: Tony’s background spans both low-level server/colocation setup and modern cloud-native database services, giving him rare end-to-end perspective on infrastructure, operations and developer-facing data platforms.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Information System(concentrate on software development and data mining), Master of Science (M.S.) Information System(concentrate on software development and data mining) at George Mason University