Summary
Imran Imtiaz is a Senior Database Administrator based in Dubai with 6+ years of experience designing, tuning, and securing high‑availability PostgreSQL and SQL Server environments that power mission‑critical systems. He specializes in performance optimization (reducing slow-query times by over 70%), HA/DR architectures (Patroni, repmgr, Always On) and automation, having built backup and maintenance pipelines that achieved 99.9% data availability and cut manual tasks in half. Complementing his DBA expertise, he is a full‑stack developer who built internal HR and Zakat systems and engineered a payment reconciliation solution that halved manual effort and tightened financial integrity. He turns data into actionable insight through Power BI dashboards and analytics that improved reporting accuracy by ~30%, helping executives make faster decisions. Comfortable providing 24/7 production support, he blends DevOps practices, scripting (PowerShell/Shell), and thoughtful schema design to keep databases resilient under pressure. A Heriot‑Watt Computer Science master’s graduate, he also shares practical DevOps and data engineering insights with the tech community.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus
English, Urdu