Benjamin Asante
Principal & Founder · Cloud Database Engineering Lead · 11+ Years Federal & Enterprise · U.S. Citizen
Benjamin Asante is the founder and principal of Fortis Data Group — a cleared federal database engineering consulting firm built on 11 years of hands-on production experience across federal civilian, Department of Defense, healthcare, telecom, and retail environments.
Benjamin currently leads database engineering for the U.S. Treasury's T-Cloud program — a $1.3 billion multi-cloud modernization initiative spanning AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, OCI, and GCP — where he has directed the migration and modernization of hundreds of enterprise databases across IRS and Treasury environments with zero data loss. He played a pivotal role in the competitive capture that secured the prime contract, providing technical solutioning and architecture direction that positioned the firm as Treasury's primary modernization partner.
Concurrently, Benjamin architects distributed database systems for the U.S. Navy Military Sealift Command — designing replication architectures for ship-based database environments that must maintain data integrity under intermittent and denied satellite connectivity. He is currently leading the modernization of legacy SAP MobiLink replication to a Kafka-based event-driven architecture — one of the most technically demanding database infrastructure transitions in the DoD space.
Benjamin holds both an Active Public Trust and an Active DoD Secret clearance simultaneously — enabling immediate engagement on federal civilian and military programs without clearance lead time. He is known for bridging the gap between complex database engineering and executive stakeholder communication, delivering performance, cost, and risk reporting directly to agency leadership and government program management offices.
Multi-Cloud Architecture
Distributed Systems
Database Modernization
Performance Engineering
Federal Compliance
Kafka & Event-Driven
Terraform & IaC
HA/DR Architecture
ETL & Data Integration
DoD RMF
Career Timeline
Cloud Database Engineer Lead
T-Rex Solutions — Treasury T-Cloud (SAIC Prime)
Oct 2023 – Present
Leading database engineering for the $1.3B U.S. Treasury T-Cloud multi-cloud modernization program across AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, OCI, and GCP.
Senior Database Engineer — Distributed Systems
CACI — Military Sealift Command IBS Program
Oct 2024 – Present
Architecting distributed database replication systems for U.S. Navy maritime environments operating under denied satellite connectivity. Leading SAP MobiLink to Kafka modernization.
Sr. Cloud Database Engineer
Medifast, Inc.
Jun 2021 – Oct 2023
Senior database engineering across SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle ERP, and Redshift supporting healthcare and eCommerce platforms. Reduced downtime 30%, supporting 1,000+ BI users.
Sr. SQL Server | Oracle | MySQL DBA
Granite Telecommunications
Nov 2019 – Jul 2021
Multi-platform DBA across SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL/MariaDB for enterprise telecom. Delivered 25–30% performance improvement and implemented HA/DR supporting 99.9% uptime SLAs.
Microsoft Customer Engineer
Microsoft (via JDA TSG)
Jul 2020 – Oct 2020
SQL Server consulting and health checks for enterprise Microsoft customers. Architecture advisory and migration assessment for cloud modernization.
Senior Database Administrator Lead
Seven Hills Foundation
Nov 2015 – Nov 2019
Full lifecycle DBA for clinical database environments. DR strategy design, performance tuning, SSIS ETL, and 24/7 on-call production support for healthcare systems.
Certifications
AWS Solutions Architect – Associate
Azure Database Admin (DP-300)
HashiCorp Terraform Associate
CompTIA Security+ ce (Active)
EDB PostgreSQL DBA
Oracle Linux Certified
EPIC Cogito & Caboodle Admin
NSA Linux Security
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