Calm Under Pressure
Production incidents demand clear thinking. I focus on understanding the problem, organizing the response, and keeping communication steady while the team works toward recovery.
HELLO, I'M
Faye
Chakmakoglu
Building resilient database platforms organizations can depend on.
From healthcare systems to global messaging platforms, I’ve spent more than 17 years solving complex production problems, leading technical teams, and building systems designed to withstand failure.
17+
Years Solving Production Problems
2000+
Healthcare Clinic Servers Supported
5.3 TB
Largest Migration Coordinated
10
Database Professionals Led
Oracle Database
Data Guard
RMAN
OEM
SQL & PL/SQL
Linux
Incident Leadership
Career Highlights
Seventeen years of solving complex production challenges.
17+
Years of Oracle Database Engineering
2,000+
Healthcare Environments Supported
10
Database Professionals Led
5.3 TB
Largest Migration Coordinated
56
Healthcare Clinics Recovered
60+
Global BlackBerry Production Databases
Technology is only as reliable as the people behind it.
My goal has always been to build systems—and teams— that others can depend on.
Working Together
What you can expect when I'm on your team.
Technical expertise matters, but the way we work together matters just as much. These are the principles I bring to every team, project, and production incident.
Process Improvement
Solving today's problem is important. Understanding why it happened and improving the process so it is less likely to happen again is even more valuable.
Technical Leadership
Whether mentoring engineers, coordinating complex projects, or leading incident response, I believe strong teams outperform individual heroes.
Continuous Learning
Every major stage of my career has required learning something unfamiliar. Curiosity, adaptability, and a willingness to ask questions have remained some of my most valuable tools.
About Me
Database expertise backed by operational leadership.
I believe the best database administrators do more than keep systems online—they create confidence. Whether supporting healthcare clinics, global messaging platforms, or mission-critical enterprise systems, my focus has always been the same: build resilient platforms, solve complex problems, and help teams succeed under pressure.
Over the past 17+ years I've grown from someone learning Oracle for the first time into a technical leader trusted with large-scale migrations, disaster recovery, production incidents, and mentoring the next generation of database professionals.
Core Expertise
Oracle Database Administration
Production support, performance troubleshooting, patching, upgrades, backups, recovery, and lifecycle management.
High Availability & Recovery
Oracle Data Guard, disaster recovery planning, recovery testing, incident response, and business continuity.
Technical Leadership
Team leadership, mentoring, operational planning, escalation management, and cross-functional collaboration.
Featured Engineering Stories
Real production challenges. Real lessons learned.
These aren't hypothetical examples. Each story comes from a real production environment and reflects the technical decisions, coordination, and problem-solving required to get from incident or project start to a successful outcome.
Read the Story →Recovering 56 Healthcare Clinics
Led the coordinated recovery of dozens of clinic databases after a production overwrite, helping restore critical electronic medical record systems while minimizing disruption.
Read the Story →GoldenEye Regional Migration
Planned and executed regional Oracle database migrations into a new Canadian data centre while maintaining availability, validating disaster recovery, and preparing controlled backout plans.
Read the Story →5.3 TB Clinic Migration
Coordinated the migration of a large on-premises healthcare environment into the TELUS data centre using staged Data Pump processes, parallel execution, detailed planning, and cross-team coordination.
Read the Story →Philosophy
What I've learned after 17 years.
The most valuable lesson my career has taught me is that technology is only part of the solution. Reliable systems are built by people who communicate well, document thoroughly, prepare for failure, and never stop learning.
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Let’s build something reliable together.
Whether you're looking for someone to lead database operations, improve platform reliability, guide technical teams, or solve difficult production challenges, I'd love to connect.