Database performance assessment
Investigate slow queries, contention, connection pressure, and infrastructure constraints. Receive prioritized findings and a practical remediation plan.
DATABASE & INFRASTRUCTURE CONSULTING
Make complex systems
behave.
Database (PostgreSQL, Oracle, and others) performance & reliability, and the infrastructure behind them. Direct, senior technical help for software teams facing slow applications, difficult upgrades, or uncertain recovery.
SERVICES
Start with a defined problem.
Upgrade & migration planning
Review dependencies, compatibility, downtime constraints, rehearsal needs, and rollback options for PostgreSQL upgrades and database migrations, including Oracle-to-PostgreSQL work.
Recovery readiness review
Review backup coverage and recovery objectives, test a restore in an agreed environment, and document gaps and recovery steps.
SELECTED PRIOR EXPERIENCE
Hands-on work at production scale.
Performance and operations. Theo’s experience includes improving database processes by as much as 98%, tuning production environments, and mentoring database and middleware engineers.
Migration and automation. Previous work includes a zero-downtime data-center-to-AWS migration and reducing infrastructure provisioning from four weeks to roughly one hour.
These examples reflect Theo’s prior engineering work. Scope and outcomes depend on each environment.
ENGAGEMENTS
Clear scope. Direct technical help.
ASSESS
A defined environment, agreed questions, and written findings. Scope and fee are established before work begins.
01IMPLEMENT
Separately scoped remediation, upgrades, or migration work, with agreed acceptance criteria and change windows.
02ADVISE
Ongoing reviews and scheduled technical support with explicit hours, response expectations, and responsibilities.
03THE PRINCIPLE
“Why do we do it this way?”
The answers usually tell me a lot. Systems accumulate history: architecture, tooling, constraints, workarounds, business processes, old failures, and decisions that made sense to somebody at the time.
Theo Systems works from the behavior outward. Understand what should happen. Observe what is happening. Ask the people who know it. Collect the data points. Then change something.
ABOUT
Built by Theo Alpert.
Theo Systems, LLC is the database and infrastructure consulting practice of Theo Alpert. Theo started at the physical layer—circuits, microcontrollers, assembly language, and old computing systems—and has spent the years since working up, down, and sideways through the stack.
PostgreSQL and Oracle experience is supported by Linux, cloud, storage, networking, Go, Python, and operational automation. That breadth matters when a database symptom starts somewhere else. Controls and physical-systems experience also informs how Theo approaches dependencies and failure.
Theo Alpert — I Fix Things. →START WITH THE PROBLEM
What is your database holding up?
Email a short description of the problem, your database platform, and your timeline. We’ll start with a brief fit discussion, then agree on a paid scope, deliverables, and next steps.
Discuss your database problem