Mar 2024 – Feb 2026 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru · Hybrid

• AI-Driven Performance Engineering
• Built and tuned a GenAI assistant (Gemini LLM) leveraging Confluence, Jira, and Slack data to support server load forecasting, scalability planning, intelligent tuning, impact simulations, and automated reporting, achieving up to 90% accuracy in internal use cases.
• Developed a GenAI script assistant powered by Gemini LLM, trained on Bitbucket APIs and SLAs, delivering 80% accuracy and 4x productivity gains by automating performance scripting.
• Gaming Performance & Chaos Engineering
• Enhanced performance and chaos strategy for large-scale games (Rummy, Howzat, Poker, Ludo) by replicating real user flows (lobby, gameplay, rejoin, payments, KYC) and migrating to a user-behavior framework using k6 + Jenkins.
• Unified backend performance and chaos testing framework with frontend web and mobile performance workflows through Appium Device Farm, Lighthouse, and WebPageTest, ensuring smooth and comprehensive end-to-end performance testing.
• Integrated chaos testing to assess service resilience under connection drops, errors, and latency, identifying and resolving app, infra, and architectural bottlenecks.
• Scaled user concurrency significantly: Rummy (+33%), Howzat (+66%), Poker (+50%), and Ludo (+150%).
• Cost Optimization
• Achieved 50% infrastructure cost savings by taking ownership of load environment scaling, introducing nightly shutdowns, IOPS downscaling, auto-startup, and controlled manual scaling.
• Optimized resource utilization by decommissioning unnecessary services, adopting open-source load tools, tuning high-usage scenarios, and migrating load generators to AWS Graviton instances.
• Leadership & Mentoring
• Onboarded and trained new recruits, conducting org-wide sessions on performance engineering and technical best practices.

Jul 2022 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Performance Engineering and AI Integration
• Optimized mission-critical financial applications in payments and lending for peak performance.
• Scaled applications to handle future traffic growth while reducing AWS costs through tuning and infra optimization.
• Established a Performance CoE from scratch, fostering knowledge sharing and hands-on expertise.
• Enhanced Performance Testing Life Cycle by integrating GenAI with automation, cutting manual effort 10x and accelerating delivery.

May 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• High-Scale Gaming Platform Performance
• Prepared a fantasy gaming platform to handle 300K+ concurrent users during IPL 2021.
• Partnered with DevOps to resolve real-time production performance issues.
• Executed benchmarking, endurance, stress, spike, volume, and scalability testing across products and features.
• Enabled cross-platform wallet transfers (Howzat ↔ Rummy) and optimized MongoDB capacity planning for BI workloads.
• Drove successful migration from Java 8 to Java 17 through performance PoC, improving efficiency and scalability.
• Enhanced financial microservices (withdrawals, deposits, payment gateways) with architectural/code-level improvements and reliability testing, while mentoring team members on performance best practices.

Feb 2021 – Mar 2021 · 1 mo · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Performance Engineering

May 2019 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Performance Engineering, Cloud & Security
• Led performance engineering initiatives, including benchmarking, scalability, stress, load, and IoT (REST & MQTT) testing across on-premise and cloud products.
• Engineered a capacity sizing tool and optimized legacy applications, achieving up to 70% performance improvement while resolving scalability, concurrency, and memory issues.
• Developed and migrated automation frameworks for performance and security regression testing (SilkPerformer → JMeter, Build Performance Tests, Build Security Tests), strengthening CI/CD pipelines.
• Designed a custom XSS detection framework that uncovered 100+ vulnerabilities per day, and conducted penetration testing to enhance web application security.
• Deployed three products on AWS with zero downtime, integrating monitoring (CloudWatch + notifications), disaster recovery architecture, and resolving cloud/application security issues (AMI hardening, SSL optimization).
• Created a CI/CD framework to automate infra provisioning, deployments, and integrated performance/security testing for scalability and stability.
• Contributed to SOC2 audit preparation from the DevOps side, ensuring compliance readiness.
• Collaborated with customers, authored technical reports, and delivered knowledge-sharing sessions to drive best practices in performance and security.

Apr 2017 – Apr 2019 · 2 yrs

Oct 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

Jun 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos

• RnD Security and Performance

Jan 2014 – May 2014 · 4 mos

Oct 2013 – Dec 2013 · 2 mos