William Durkin
Co-Founder at The Masterminds Group
Lingen (Ems), Lower Saxony, Germany
Summary
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RockstarWilliam Durkin is a seasoned data and cloud-focused founder with nine years of professional experience helping organizations turn data into measurable business outcomes. As co-founder of multiple Masterminds companies—including Data, DevOps, and Analytics Masterminds—he blends deep SQL Server and database platform expertise with practical Azure DevOps and automation practices. His background leading global DBA teams and managing database lifecycle in cloud-first environments gives him a rare mix of hands-on tuning, architecture, and operational maturity modeling. William is based in Lingen, Germany, and consistently positions technology to serve business goals rather than the other way around. He has a track record of simplifying complex data platforms and taking full responsibility for IT platforms so clients can scale with confidence. Colleagues value him for turning operational complexity into repeatable, business-aligned processes.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
English, German
Github Skills (22)
database-administration10
migration10
sql-server10
backup10
mssql10
powershell10
database10
mysql9
microsoft-sql9
postgresql9
db29
sql9
automation9
oracle9
tsql8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
OpenQueryStore/OpenQueryStore
May 2017 - Jan 2019
OpenQueryStore
Contributions:12 releases, 21 PRs, 93 pushes in 1 year 7 months
sql-williamd/dbatools
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 month
sql-serverpowershellsqlproductivepowershell-module
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