Most enterprise database estates are quietly under-performing, over-spending, or one outage away from a bad day.
Valleza Consulting finds the hidden issues in your database and data infrastructure before they become production incidents — and delivers the architecture, tuning, and runbooks to fix them.
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Database problems stay hidden — until they cause real damage.
Most enterprise database environments look healthy from the outside while quietly accumulating risk. The issues don't announce themselves on the dashboard. They show up as outages, runaway cloud bills, or audit findings.
Focused engagements. Measurable outcomes.
Every engagement scopes tightly around a specific result — a benchmark met, a DR strategy validated, a pipeline shipped.
Database Architecture & Modernization
- Greenfield design & legacy modernization
- SQL Server, PostgreSQL
- Cloud-native on Azure & AWS
High Availability & Disaster Recovery
- Always On AG, clustering, log shipping
- RTO / RPO targets & tested failover runbooks
- Cross-region strategies that survive real outages
Data Platforms & Lake Engineering
- Data lake design
- Kafka CDC, SSIS, Airflow/ADF/SSIS Pipelines
- Real-time governed ingestion from operational sources
Performance Tuning & Configuration Review
- Instance & query-plan audits
- Indexing strategy, wait-stat baselines
- Before/after benchmarks, documented fixes
Monitoring & Automation
- Grafana + Prometheus telemetry pipelines
- Terraform & Ansible infrastructure-as-code
- Proactive alerting, not dashboard theater
Custom Development & Automation
- Stored procedures
- C#/.NET data layers
- PowerShell/Python automation
- EDI X12
- Custom reporting
Managed DBA & Ongoing Support
RetainerAlways-on senior DBA coverage for teams without one in-house — or for teams who want one without the headcount.
- Monitoring, alerting & on-call response
- Performance tuning & query optimization
- Compliance reviews
- Quarterly health checks & capacity planning
Real outcomes from enterprise database leadership.
Before launching the practice in January 2026, I spent 12+ years leading database engineering for Fortune 500 logistics, finance, and SaaS platforms.
Global estate
Led a 30-member global team managing a mission-critical database estate spanning SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Oracle across Azure, AWS, and on-prem. Standardized the operational playbook, telemetry, and escalation model.
Reliability through disciplined operations
Built the monitoring, alerting, and runbook infrastructure that sustained 98% SLA adherence at enterprise scale — including during migrations, failovers, and yearly DR tests.
Seven-figure infrastructure cost reduction
Right-sized cloud database workloads, consolidated instances, and tuned performance to eliminate unnecessary capacity — delivering sustained annualized savings without degrading service.
A consultancy built around principal-led work.
What you get is exactly what the practice is — no junior bench, no offshored delivery, no handoffs.
Principal-led, every engagement
You work directly with the person who has done this at scale — not a rotating team. No juniors, no offshored hands, no escalation chain to get an answer.
Hands-on architect, not a slide-deck shop
The same person who writes the architecture decision record also writes the T-SQL, tunes the query, and debugs the wait-stat. Strategy grounded in production reality.
Knowledge transfer, not dependency
Engagements end with documented runbooks, decision records, and pairing sessions. Your team finishes stronger than they started — and fully able to operate what was built.
A disciplined engagement process.
Every engagement follows the same four-step sequence — no surprises, no feature creep.
Discover
Workshop sessions to understand your estate, drivers, and constraints.
Design
Target architecture & trade-offs documented openly. Approved before any change.
Deliver
Iterative implementation with tested milestones and validated benchmarks.
Hand Off
Runbooks, documentation, and pairing sessions. Your team operates it after.
12+ years of enterprise database work, available directly.
Valleza Consulting was founded in January 2026 to bring the engineering rigor I applied to Fortune 500 database estates to a wider set of clients — without the overhead of a traditional consulting firm. Most recently, leading a 30-member global team managing 400+ mission-critical databases.