Yuri Shilman
Los Altos,CA
Summary
Cloud infrastructure leader with 20+ years of experience (15+ in database administration), specializing in AWS infrastructure, high availability (HA/DR), cost efficiency, automation, and observability. At BILL since 2013, I have spearheaded the on-prem to AWS migration (15+ years of data) with less than 10 minutes of downtime. Passionate about self-healing systems, AI-driven automation, and modernizing cloud architectures to enable business growth, while optimizing costs.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Director, Cloud Infrastructure
Bill
San Jose, CA
08.2023 - Current
- Oversee AWS infrastructure strategy across all of BILL’s environments, ensuring uptime, scalability, HA/DR, and security.
- Drove HA/DR improvements, focusing on AZ resiliency, and optimized storage layout.
- Reduced AWS costs by $250K+ per year using RDS RIs, Spot Instances, and cloud-native solutions.
- Building AI-powered bots (Glean/Gemini AI) to automate cost observability, HA/DR, and self-healing infrastructure.
- Renegotiating vendor contracts, securing 40-60% savings, while evaluating modern alternatives.
- Organizing engineering-wide training for Splunk and AWS products.
- Led a team of 22 engineers
Sr. Manager, Production Infrastructure
Bill
San Jose
02.2022 - 08.2023
- Spearheaded the on-prem to AWS migration (15+ years of data) with less than 10 minutes of downtime.
- Managed SRE, DBA, Network, and Storage teams, driving reliability and automation.
- Led cost optimization efforts and modernized infrastructure for scalability.
- Led a team of 12 engineers
Manager, Database & Storage Systems
Bill
San Jose, CA
09.2020 - 02.2022
- Implemented Oracle Active Data Guard for cross-data center replication.
- Architected GoldenGate-based data replication, now BILL's core replication technology.
- Led a team of five engineers.
Senior Oracle DBA - Staff DBA
Bill
San Jose, CA
02.2013 - 09.2020
- Led database performance tuning, high availability, and automation initiatives.
Oracle DBA
Apple, Charles Schwab, eMeter
San Francisco, CA
06.1999 - 02.2013
- Specialized in performance tuning, database reliability, and large-scale migrations.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA06-1999
Skills
- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, Serverless)
- Databases and Storage: Oracle, PostgreSQL, AWS RDS, DynamoDB, EFS, S3
- Observability and Incident Response: Datadog, Splunk, PagerDuty, Foglight
- Automation & AI Bots: Glean, Gemini AI, Terraform, Self-Healing Infra
- Cost Optimization and Vendor Management: AWS RIs, Savings Plans, and Contract Negotiation
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Director, Cloud Infrastructure
Bill
08.2023 - Current
Sr. Manager, Production Infrastructure
Bill
02.2022 - 08.2023
Manager, Database & Storage Systems
Bill
09.2020 - 02.2022
Senior Oracle DBA - Staff DBA
Bill
02.2013 - 09.2020
Oracle DBA
Apple, Charles Schwab, eMeter
06.1999 - 02.2013
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
San Francisco State University
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