Reliability across generations of data platforms.

Senior engineering judgment with an operator’s bias.

I am Alex Ivanov, a database and data platform engineer with more than three decades across programming, database administration, database engineering, and modern cloud data platforms.

My experience spans PostgreSQL and Aurora/RDS, Snowflake, Redshift, SQL Server, Oracle, AWS data services, dbt, and Fivetran. The recurring problem is not a particular product. It is how teams make safe, explainable decisions when performance, availability, recovery, cost, and operational ownership collide.

Cloud DBRE Tech packages that perspective as an evidence-led reliability practice: observe the system, preserve the evidence, compare remedies, control authority, verify the result, and record what remains unknown.

I am deliberately skeptical of inflated reliability claims and unsupervised production automation. A technically honest local result is more valuable than a polished conclusion that the evidence cannot support.