Ava Mercer brings over a decade of hands-on experience in data integration, ETL architecture, and database administration. She has led multi-cloud data migrations and designed high-throughput pipelines for organizations across finance, healthcare, and e-commerce. Ava specializes in connector development, performance tuning, and governance, ensuring data moves reliably from source to destination while meeting strict compliance requirements.
Her technical toolkit includes advanced SQL, Python, orchestration frameworks, and deep operational knowledge of cloud warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) and relational databases (Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server). Ava is also experienced in monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning, helping teams minimize downtime and control costs.
When she’s not optimizing pipelines, Ava writes about practical ETL patterns, data observability, and secure design for engineering teams. She holds multiple cloud and database certifications and enjoys mentoring junior DBAs to build resilient, production-grade data platforms.
