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Umesh Shastry

Sharpshooter · DISC type CD
Senior Principal Technical Support Engineer, MySQL at Oracle
📍 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Umesh Shastry is a Senior Principal MySQL Technical Support Engineer with over 15 years of deep expertise in open-source databases. A graduate of Gulbarga University, he is an Oracle Certified Professional specializing in resolving complex, high-stakes issues for enterprise customers. Colleagues describe him as knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and precise.

His passion lies in enhancing database stability and contributing to the open-source community. This is demonstrated by his long-term commitment to verifying bug reports and his recognition as a MySQL Server expert by the Experts Exchange community, where he helps other professionals.

Unique fact: He has personally verified over 15, 000 community and customer-reported bugs, significantly improving the quality and reliability of the MySQL database.

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Experience
17 Years
Current Role
Senior Principal Technical Support Engineer, MySQL
Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Personality Overview

How Umesh shows up

Rigorous & Demanding
Precise But Practical
Thorough Evaluator

They are very proud of what they do. They respond well to strong and respectful communication. More than the product, they care about the effectiveness of the product.

Priorities

Topics Umesh cares about

MySQL Performance
His roles consistently involve architecting performance tuning strategies, query optimization, and delivering significant performance gains for enterprise applications.
Database Availability
He has extensive experience engineering robust high-availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions for a diverse portfolio of clients.
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Career

Work history

1-2018 - 9-2025
Senior Principal Technical Support Engineer, MySQL
Oracle
10-2015 - 12-2017
Principal Technical Support Engineer, MySQL
Oracle
5-2011 - 9-2015
Senior Technical Support Engineer, MySQL
Oracle
12-2010 - 5-2011
MySQL SME - TEG Databases
HCL Technologies
4-2009 - 5-2011
Associate Consultant
HCL Technologies
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Education
1998 - 2001
Master of Computer Applications (MCA)
Gulbarga University
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Calculativeness (C)

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