Lewis Cunningham

Lewis Cunningham is a native New Orleanian who now lives in Tampa, FL. Lewis started writing as a teen, but didn't choose to publish until fairly recently (which is nowhere near the teen years).

Lewis is a Data-oriented software engineer with extensive experience architecting data solutions across GCP, AWS, and on-premise environments. Specializes in petabyte-scale cloud migrations, performance tuning complex databases (BigQuery, Oracle, PostgreSQL), and developing resilient ETL/ELT pipelines using Python, SQL, and Airflow.

CERTIFICATIONS:

• Google Professional Data Engineer

• Apache Airflow DAG Authoring

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

• Oracle ACE Director Alumnus

• CIW v5 Database Design Specialist

• Oracle Data Warehouse 11g Certified Implementation Specialist

• Oracle 11g Certified Professional

Lewis has over 30 years of database experience with BigQuery, Redshift, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL and others. Lewis has worked in the healthcare, federal government (DoD), higher education, finance, and other industries.

Lewis has authored or co-authored several books, including the very popular, "Expert PL/SQL Practices: For Oracle Developers and DBAs" by Apress. His other books include SQL DML and EnterpriseDB: The Definitive Reference. Lewis is particularly fond of his middle-grade novella, "Beyond The Fence", which was written with the assistance of his 9-year-old son.