Akash Barik

DevOps Engineer

Wicklow, County Wicklow, Ireland11 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 11 years of experience in Performance Engineering.
  • Expert in cloud migration and performance optimization.
  • Strong background in Site Reliability Engineering and Machine Learning.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Performance Engineering expert in Fintech and Cloud Infrastructure.

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Skills

Core Skills

Performance EngineeringSite Reliability EngineeringCloud Management

Other Skills

Performance ImprovementDynatraceJProfilerSplunkGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)GrafanaPagerDutyC++JavaProgrammingCore JavaPivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF)Amazon Web Services (AWS)Leading Development TeamsServer Architecture

About

A result oriented Performance Engineer with 11+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineer, Performance Testing and Engineering and Machine Leaning. Having experience in BFS and Telecom domain, always ready to explore trending technologies. Machine Learning Enthusiast, who believes AI/ML is future of automation. I am kind of guy who love to code, just give me a bean bag, good music and hacker rank, that's all I enjoy.

Experience

11 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 11 mos
Current Experience

Mastercard

2 roles

Lead Software Engineer

Promoted

Feb 2024Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

  • Migration Planning: Develop strategies for migrating mainframe applications to the cloud, ensuring seamless transition and optimal performance.
  • Tool Utilization: Leverage tools like Dynatrace, JProfiler, Splunk for monitoring, profiling, and analyzing application performance during and post-migration.
  • Dynatrace Expertise: Utilize Dynatrace to gain real-time insights into application performance, identifying bottlenecks and optimizing resource utilization.
  • JProfiler Integration: Employ JProfiler to analyze Java applications, profiling code execution and memory usage to enhance overall performance.
  • Splunk Analytics: Utilize Splunk for log analysis and correlation, enabling quick identification and resolution of issues in the cloud environment.
  • JVM Tuning: Fine-tune Java Virtual Machine (JVM) settings to optimize Java application performance, ensuring efficient resource utilization in the cloud.
  • Performance Monitoring: Implement continuous performance monitoring mechanisms to track application behavior, promptly identifying and addressing performance issues.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with development teams, architects, and other stakeholders to align performance goals with the overall migration strategy.
  • Troubleshooting: Quickly diagnose and resolve performance-related issues, employing a proactive approach to prevent potential disruptions.
  • Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of performance tuning activities, configurations, and best practices for future reference and knowledge sharing
Performance EngineeringPerformance ImprovementDynatraceJProfilerSplunkSite Reliability Engineering

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2022Feb 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos · Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

  • Lead the performance life cycle in Mastercard for payment components.
  • Work on improving the existing application performance
  • Support for Next Edge movement for modernising the payment network using new network components
  • Test, Tune and Engineer the performance bottlenecks for different network adapters and communication methodologies like gRPC.
  • Support for performance analysis and improvement during the transformation from Mainframe to Open Shift cluster using Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Pt bank jago tbk

2 roles

Performance Specialist

May 2021May 2022 · 1 yr · South Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia

  • Performance assessment for Bank JAGO Mobile app and web portal (SE Asia’s first Digital Bank)
  • Working with different tools like Jmeter, Loadrunner, Dynatrace managed, Kubernetes, docker etc
  • Working toward stability of application and improving the User experience.
  • Testing from web portal for front end and backend performance.
  • Using Lighthouse, Web Page insight for Web portal Client Side Performance Test.
  • Using Apptim, Firebase for Mobile UI test
  • Using Jmeter, dyntrace managed, Google Cloud console and CloudFlare console for monitoring.
  • Work on improving overall implementation of Open Shift containers having Kubernetes, Google Cloud, Kafka and graphql.
  • Coordinating with different stakeholders for performance timeline and successful production with no performance open issues.
  • Work on complete Performance lifecycle from requirement gathering till reporting.
  • Monitor production closely for every week release and identify any potential performance bottleneck which might cause issue.

Site Reliability Engineer

Apr 2021Jul 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · South Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia

  • Production monitoring using dynatrace, grafana custom dashboards and pagerduty.
  • Incident management for issue observed in production during on call shift.
  • Schedule maintenance and user maintenance in pagerduty.
  • GCP log monitoring, kubernets cluster management, deployment and production release management.
Site Reliability EngineeringGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)DynatraceGrafanaPagerDutyCloud Management

Amdocs

2 roles

Performance Test Team Lead

May 2020Mar 2021 · 10 mos

  • Liaising with key business stakeholders establish requirements and project goals, ensuring all objectives were outlined and accomplished.
  •  Involved in all the phases of performance testing starting from Requirement gathering till End of test report submission.
  •  Generate different test deliverables for client which are involved in different phases.
  •  Participate in early shift left activities to produce roadmap for Performance Testing and performance issues and try to fix them early in the timeline.
  •  Generate and Analyze har and Lighthouse report for digital application
  •  Create NeoLoad and AKAMAI scripts, execute Scenarios for same.
  •  Analyze the test using NeoLoad Results Dynatrace Managed and Perfmon.
  •  Test Native Mobile app using Loadrunner and Mobile Center.
  •  Setup customized analysis using Grafana, telegraph, influxdb and MySQL.
  •  Automated Har and Lighthouse generation and analysis using Java and Selenium Chrome Driver.
  • Role: Performance Specialist
  •  Create performance scripts for Loadrunner, Neoload and AKAMAI.
  •  Execute test using Controller and Performance Center.
  •  Analyze and monitor using HPD, Dynatrace Managed and Dynatrace Appmon.
  •  Analyze the JVM or .NET internal (Heap Memory, GC Collections, suspensions etc.), thread dump analysis and Worker threads analysis for better CPU and process utilization.
  •  Setup customized analysis for new technologies like Couchbase, Adobe Experience Manager etc. using Grafana, Telegraf, InfluxDB, MYSQL and ELK.
  •  Analyze the Database performance using Perfmon stats, AWR Reports, V$ Session details.
  •  Setup CI\CD pipeline using Jenkins for Performance Automation that can be used in different sprints and program Increment for Regression.
  •  Work on Messaging Queue Testing for IOT based applications. Where mostly communication is using KAFKA for MQTT. Performing the same using Jmeter and Loadrunner.

Software Development Engineer In Test

Aug 2016Apr 2020 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Result Areas:
  • Work in agile methodology to support application in multiple sprints and report for any performance and automation
  • bottlenecks for every code drop based on different type of testing and analysis.
  • Work as a Scrum tester to perform method level testing to improve the application and detect
  • any early stage performance anomaly.
  • Generate Load runner and Jmeterscripts to automate virtual users for different performance tests like Load
  • test, Soak test etc.
  • Monitor server and database behavior during real time testing and report for any unexpected behavior using
  • monitoring tool like HP Diagnostic, Dynatrace and JProfiler.
  • Setting up real time dashboard like Grafana and Kibana to be integrated with CI\CD using Jenkins.
  • Analyze the AWR Report for any database issues (like longest running query, or high CPU utilized queries).
  • Along with AWR look for V$ session if we could find any deadlock or blocking queries.
  • To analyze Heap Memory and Process utilization, perform heap dump analysis for former and thread dump
  • analysis for later.
  • Perform front end analysis for web applications using different tools and technologies to identify any
  • performance impact in the page rendering to improve end user experience.
  • Work for Mobile Testing using Loadrunner and Mobile Lab.
  • Setup CI\CD using Jenkins to improve the process and automate the tasks to support testing of frequent
  • builds and to enhance Testing teams support for different stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with development team to assist with test requirements, and resolve issues resulting from pre-
  • live testing.
  • Manage different stakeholders to avoid any timeline impact and deliver the task assigned on time with the
  • best possible result for the application performance.
  • Working in for implementing methodology to test IoT applications.

Cognizant technology solutions

Performance Test Engineer

Sep 2014Aug 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · Pune, India

  • Key Result Areas:
  • Liaising with key business stakeholders establish requirements and project goals, ensuring all objectives were outlined and accomplished.
  • A keen communicator with honed interpersonal, problem solving and negotiation abilities.
  • Generate Scripts for different applications and run performance tests as per requirement.
  • Monitor servers and database for any bottlenecks during test or for any instability post deployment and report the same to key stake holders.
  • Effectively manage multiple priorities simultaneously, and delivering product with strict deadline.
  • Drove efforts towards maintaining best practices; adhered to company standards for scripting and analysis purpose.

Venturepact

RubyOnRail developer

Jan 2014May 2014 · 4 mos · Amritsar/Ludhiana Area

  • Key Result Areas:
  • Working on development of different module for many online application.
  • Some of them are:
  •  Journeybid.com  Verisafe.co  Helpoutdoors.com

Education

Dublin City University

Master of Science - MS — Artificial Intelligence

Sep 2024Present

Lovely Professional University

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Science

Jan 2010Jan 2014

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