Madhuri Kankanala is an experienced Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Principal Engineer in Database at Verizon, serving since October 2011. Prior to this role, Madhuri held positions as a Senior Oracle Applications Database Administrator at Stryker for a brief period in 2011, and as a Senior Oracle Database Administrator at Cisco from April 2009 to October 2010. Madhuri began a career in database administration at Tata Consultancy Services, where responsibilities included serving as an Oracle Database Administrator from February 2008 to October 2010. Earlier experience includes an internship at JKC from December 2006 to June 2007. Madhuri holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Computer Science from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University and attended St. Ann's College.