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Nitin Parab

Database Platform & AI Engineer
Singapore
Nitin Parab

Summary

Database Platform & AI Engineer with 20 years of experience at Salesforce, JP Morgan Chase, and Dell, delivering mission-critical database platforms at enterprise scale. Deep expertise in Oracle RAC, Data Guard, GoldenGate replication, database reliability, performance optimization, and large-scale cloud migration programs. Combining extensive platform engineering experience with hands-on development of Agentic AI systems, machine learning solutions, NLP applications, and AI-powered automation through industry projects and an MSc in Artificial Intelligence & Innovation at the National University of Singapore (Expected Dec 2026).

Overview

20
years of professional experience
2
Certificates

Work History

Salesforce

Lead Database Engineer
07.2014 - 08.2026

Job overview

  • Engineered and operated mission-critical database platforms supporting 99.99% uptime SLAs across large-scale enterprise environments, implementing high availability, disaster recovery, backup, replication, and operational resilience strategies
  • Architected and delivered an award-winning 11-skill agentic AI system built with Claude Opus and Claude Code, integrating five operational data sources to automate Pod Migration and Decommission workflows. Delivered a unified status dashboard, real-time progress tracking, and NLP-based issue detection with resolution recommendations, reducing handoff report generation time from 15 minutes to 30 seconds per pod. Team received Salesforce Hackathon 2026 "Most Heroic" Award.
  • Led APAC Pod Migration and Decommission programs, consolidating large-scale database environments from legacy data centers to AWS, migrating over 5 PB of data and delivering multi-million-dollar infrastructure savings.
  • Designed and managed real-time database replication and data synchronization solutions while leading large-scale migration and modernization initiatives across on-premises and cloud environments.
  • Performed database performance tuning, capacity planning, troubleshooting, and workload optimization for large-scale OLTP systems, while developing Python and SQL-based automation solutions to eliminate manual operational processes.
  • Analyzed operational and infrastructure datasets to identify capacity trends, optimize resource utilization, and support strategic migration, decommissioning, and platform planning decisions at Salesforce scale.
  • Served as a trusted technical advisor to engineering leadership, driving root cause analysis, platform reliability improvements, database architecture reviews, operational best practices, and migration strategy across distributed systems.

Keppel FELS Ltd

Database Administrator
09.2013 - 07.2014

Job overview

  • Managed enterprise database environments supporting mission-critical engineering and business applications, delivering high availability, disaster recovery, backup and recovery, database migration, performance optimization, and operational reliability initiatives.

Shell Infotech (Keppel FELS Ltd)

Database Administrator
01.2013 - 09.2013

Job overview

  • Provided Oracle database administration and production support for Keppel FELS, including troubleshooting, patching, performance analysis, backup/recovery and infrastructure changes.

Dell (UBS)

Database Administration Advisor
03.2011 - 01.2013

Job overview

  • Supported mission-critical database platforms for UBS Singapore's core banking and financial services applications, delivering high availability, performance optimization, database upgrades, migrations, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis within a highly regulated banking environment.

JP Morgan Chase

Database Analyst
05.2010 - 03.2011

Job overview

  • Administered mission-critical banking database environments, providing 24×7 operational support, high availability and disaster recovery solutions, and troubleshooting complex production issues under strict SLA requirements.

Amdocs

Senior Database Administrator
09.2008 - 05.2010

Job overview

  • Administered large-scale database platforms supporting telecom billing, OSS/BSS, and customer management systems, delivering performance optimization, production support, and successful application releases in high-volume transactional environments.

Clover Infotech

Database Consultant
09.2006 - 09.2008

Job overview

  • Managed enterprise database environments for banking, insurance, and retail clients, delivering high availability, disaster recovery, migration, backup/recovery, and performance tuning initiatives.

Education

National University of Singapore

Master of Science from Artificial Intelligence & Innovation
04.2001

University Overview

Key Areas: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, LLM Applications, RAG, AI Governance & Ethics, Agentic AI


Research Projects:

Old Bailey Court Records Analysis (1900–1913) | Python, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, NLP, SHAP, Causal Inference

  • Built an end-to-end NLP and machine learning pipeline on 8,800+ legal case records to predict judicial outcomes from unstructured court transcripts.
  • Engineered 57+ text, linguistic, sentiment, readability, and topic-based features and developed predictive models using Logistic Regression, Random Forest, SVM, and XGBoost.
  • Implemented explainable AI (SHAP), fairness analysis, and causal inference techniques to evaluate factors influencing verdict and sentencing decisions.

Utility Fraud Detection | Python, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, Feature Engineering

  • Developed an ensemble fraud-detection solution for electricity and gas consumption data, achieving AUC 0.792 and 65% fraud recall through advanced feature engineering and model optimization.
  • Evaluated multiple supervised learning algorithms and optimized precision-recall trade-offs for highly imbalanced fraud datasets.

University of Mumbai
India

Bachelor of Engineering from Computer Engineering
04.2001

Skills

Oracle RAC & Data Guard

GoldenGate & Replication

Python

AWS & Cloud Architecture

Machine Learning & NLP

LLMs & RAG

Agentic AI & Claude

AI Governance & Responsible AI

DevOps

Databricks

Kafka

Timeline

AWS Certified AI Practitioner

04-2025

Cloud Computing Post Graduate Program [California Institute of Technology]

06-2024

Lead Database Engineer

Salesforce
07.2014 - 08.2026

Database Administrator

Keppel FELS Ltd
09.2013 - 07.2014

Database Administrator

Shell Infotech (Keppel FELS Ltd)
01.2013 - 09.2013

Database Administration Advisor

Dell (UBS)
03.2011 - 01.2013

Database Analyst

JP Morgan Chase
05.2010 - 03.2011

Senior Database Administrator

Amdocs
09.2008 - 05.2010

Database Consultant

Clover Infotech
09.2006 - 09.2008

National University of Singapore

Master of Science from Artificial Intelligence & Innovation
04.2001

University of Mumbai

Bachelor of Engineering from Computer Engineering
04.2001

Certification

Cloud Computing Post Graduate Program [California Institute of Technology]

Nitin ParabDatabase Platform & AI Engineer