Database engineer / SQL Server consultant

Mihaly Kertesz

SQL Server consultant

My background is mostly databases, operations, and building things that have to keep working after they go live.

20+ years in enterprise databases and infrastructure

banking, logistics, and enterprise operations

multi-platform certified: Oracle, IBM, Red Hat

SQL Server, HA, recovery, tuning, product, SEO

Background

20+

years around enterprise databases and infrastructure.

Banking, logistics, support environments, product work, and selected SQL Server consulting.

Database work where changes matter

I have spent most of my career around enterprise databases: banking, logistics, support environments, and systems where a bad change can ruin someone's week.

I am certified across Oracle, IBM, and Red Hat. That matters less as a badge list and more as a habit: read the whole setup before blaming one setting.

I keep consulting narrow on purpose. A small number of SQL Server engagements means I can actually read the environment, not skim it between too many tickets.

Base

Budapest, Hungary

Now

SQL Server consulting

Availability

Booking roughly 2 weeks out

Language

Hungarian - native / English - full professional proficiency

Experience

Database and engineering background

Passary

Founder

Building an offline password manager and making the security, storage, and product calls around it. It uses the same habits as database work: assume failure, keep control of the data, and avoid magic.

Passary
Dec 2025 - Present

Budapest / remote / part-time

Transcom

Database Engineer / Specialized Engineering Project

A short enterprise database project focused on keeping the setup operable under real constraints.

Transcom
Jun 2025 - Dec 2025

remote / specialized engineering project

BPSEO

Independent Engineering

Independent technical work across SEO, websites, and content systems. This is where product, search, and commercial decisions became part of the same work as the engineering.

BPSEO
Dec 2019 - May 2025

Budapest / remote / independent advisory

KBC Global Services

Senior Database Engineer

Database engineering in a banking environment, with the usual need for careful changes and boring reliability.

KBC Global Services logo
Apr 2024 - Dec 2024

Budapest / hybrid / full-time

Hellmann Worldwide Logistics

Database Engineer

Database work for logistics systems, where slow systems and failed jobs quickly become real business problems.

Hellmann Worldwide Logistics logo
Apr 2022 - Feb 2024

Budapest

Unisys

Senior Database Engineer

A longer database engineering period across enterprise operations, incidents, change work, and support.

Unisys logo
Nov 2017 - Apr 2022

enterprise

Oracle

Database Engineer

Oracle-heavy database work covering operations, performance, and the details that decide whether a system behaves in production.

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Jan 2016 - Nov 2017

enterprise

Erste Bank

Database Administrator

Database administration in banking. Small changes still needed the care of production work.

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Oct 2015 - Jan 2016

banking

Advanced365

Database Administrator

UK-based database administration that helped me work across different delivery habits, tools, and client expectations.

Advanced365
Oct 2013 - Oct 2014

London Area, United Kingdom

IBM

Database Administrator

Infrastructure and database support in a larger enterprise setting, with tickets, incidents, process, and careful changes.

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Apr 2012 - Oct 2013

Brno, South Moravia, Czechia

HPE

Database Administrator

Enterprise operations and support work where the handover mattered as much as the fix.

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2010 - 2011

enterprise

IT Services Hungary Kft.

Database Administrator

Early database administration work in a larger delivery environment. Documentation, escalation, and repeatable fixes were already part of the job.

ITSH
2007 - 2008

enterprise

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