Kakao DBA Oli Shares Experience in Company-Wide MySQL Management and Job Appeal

Oli, who joined via the 2020 blind new developer recruitment, currently works as a MySQL DBA at Kakao. He operates company-wide MySQL services with a small team, handling monitoring, performance tuning, incident response, and management tool development. Oli emphasized that this environment provides opportunities to acquire foundational technologies in DBMS implementation accumulated over decades, along with diverse knowledge spanning from the OS to the Application Layer. Recently, he has been focusing on supplementing existing DB management tools and developing new ones, while simultaneously studying various fields such as web development. Oli recommends that candidates interested in the DBA role have a high level of understanding of database fundamentals and Linux environments, and stresses the importance of an attitude geared toward proactively identifying problems and growing.