Technical Biography

Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha, CEO & Founder of DBPerfMan LLC has over 19 years of industry expertise working with Oracle systems. He has been in the business of managing and optimizing OLTP, OLAP and data warehousing systems based on Oracle, for over 14 years. His specialties include Cloud Computing for Oracle Databases, Oracle Database Performance Diagnostics & Management, High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery(DR), Data Consolidation & Information Lifecycle Management (ILM).

In recent years, Gaja has also worked in a variety of product and technical management roles to application performance and storage management solutions for companies such as Veritas Corporation, Oracle Corporation and Quest Software. He also served as a Technical Manager at Accenture LLP, specializing in Oracle Systems Performance Management. He is the co-author of two publications - "Oracle Performance Tuning 101" published by Oracle Press and "Oracle Insights : Tales of the Oak Table", published by Apress LP.

Gaja holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Bowling Green State University, Ohio. His key areas of interests include Cloud-Computing for Oracle databases, application and database performance, scalability, high availability and disaster recovery design, data consolidation, ILM and storage architectures for Oracle-based systems. He has presented many papers at various regional, national and international Oracle conferences and has served as faculty of the IOUG-A Master Class University. Gaja is one of Oracle University's Celebrity Seminar Speakers. His claim to technical fame was in the invention of the term "Compulsive Tuning Disorder" (CTD) in the year 2000. Gaja is a member of the OakTable Network.