Datta Deshmukh — Product Manager

A seasoned software professional with over 20 years of experience in Performance Engineering, specializing in strategy, scripting, execution, and production performance troubleshooting. Highly skilled in sizing, capacity planning, and delivering actionable performance recommendations for both enterprise and cloud-native applications. Proficient in Gatling (Scala), JMeter, IBM Rational Performance Tester, and HP LoadRunner, with deep expertise across Web Services, Web Applications, ETL, and Analytic Platforms. Experienced in all key performance domains including Performance Testing & Engineering, Capacity Planning & Engineering, and Advanced Reliability Engineering. Adept at delivering end-to-end solutions that ensure scalability, stability, and optimal performance for complex distributed systems. At Coupa Software, I joined as the first engineer on the India Performance team and have since grown it into a 20-member high-performing organization. My leadership in Performance and Capacity Engineering has been pivotal in scaling the platform to support thousands of enterprise customers. Through these initiatives, we’ve achieved a 10× improvement in product performance and an 8× increase in batch processing throughput, setting new benchmarks for industry best practices. I’ve played a foundational role in establishing dedicated teams for Performance Engineering, Capacity Planning, and Advanced Reliability Engineering, significantly enhancing both application and infrastructure resilience. By fostering a culture of continuous improvement, technical excellence, and innovation, I’ve influenced how engineering and operations teams approach performance across the organization—resulting in major cloud cost optimizations and improved service reliability. I’m deeply passionate about cross-functional collaboration, aligning engineering strategies with business outcomes, and driving product and platform roadmaps. I take pride in mentoring and developing talent, cultivating a high-trust, high-impact culture, and leading key initiatives across performance, stress, failover, scalability, and chaos testing to ensure world-class system performance.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Performance Engineering expert with a focus on scalability and optimization.

Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India

Experience: 21 yrs 11 mos

Skills

Performance Engineering
Capacity Planning

Career Highlights

Achieved 10x improvement in product performance.
Reduced infrastructure costs by over $10 million annually.
Established a high-performing team of 20 engineers.

Work Experience

Coupa Software

Senior Manager Performance Engineering (3 yrs 9 mos)

Manager, Performance Engineering (1 yr 11 mos)

Lead Performance Enginner (3 yrs 6 mos)

IBM

Senior Performance Engineer (7 yrs 2 mos)

Emptoris (Acquired by IBM)

Senior Software Engineer - Performance (2 yrs)

Performance Engineer (1 yr)

AXA

Software Engineer (3 yrs 8 mos)

Education

Master in Computer Management at Savitribai Phule Pune University

Datta Deshmukh

Product Manager

Pune, Maharashtra, India21 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Achieved 10x improvement in product performance.
Reduced infrastructure costs by over $10 million annually.
Established a high-performing team of 20 engineers.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Performance Engineering expert with a focus on scalability and optimization.

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Skills

Core Skills

Performance EngineeringCapacity Planning

Other Skills

Performance TestingPerformance AnalysisJMeterHP LoadRunnerGatlingNew RelicETLSplunk EnterpriseSplunk Cloud PlatformWebSphere Application ServerKsarNMONVisualVMSecurity TestingSQL

About

Experience

21 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

9 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Coupa software

3 roles

Senior Manager Performance Engineering

Promoted

Sep 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

Built and mentored a high-performing team of 16 engineers, starting as the first hire in India’s Performance team. Successfully executed a hiring program for fresh college graduates, maintaining a zero attrition rate through mentorship and professional development.
Developed a scalable framework that identifies performance bottlenecks early, improving testing processes and product quality. This proactive approach ensured performance was prioritized throughout development, from initial coding to production.
Worked closely with SRE, DevOps, and TechOps teams to resolve production performance issues, ensuring platform stability and reliability. My quick response to root cause analysis and solution implementation kept performance at optimal levels in live environments.
Scaled the performance and capacity engineering teams to support thousands of customers, expanding from a few products to multiple applications through acquisitions.
Achieved a 10x increase in product performance for enterprise deployments and scaled batch processing throughput by 8x, improving overall platform efficiency.
Cost Optimization: Implemented cost-saving strategies that reduced infrastructure costs by over $10 million annually.
Designed and launched a self-service performance benchmarking tool, empowering the engineering team to validate code changes before integration.
Developed performance models to detect bottlenecks as transaction volumes increased, enabling proactive support for large customer deployments.
Transitioned a monolithic application to Kubernetes, improving scalability and infrastructure utilization. Evaluated and certified new infrastructure changes to enhance reliability and efficiency.
Fostered a culture of collaboration, innovation, and practical decision-making, driving performance goals and technical excellence across teams.
Led proof of concepts and implemented new technologies and frameworks to enhance scalability, availability, and overall product performance.

Performance EngineeringCapacity PlanningPerformance TestingPerformance AnalysisJMeterHP LoadRunner+2

Manager, Performance Engineering

Oct 2020 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

Optimize system performance
Build and Establish performance engineering tools and framework
Scale product performance by optimizing application platform and infrastructure
Scale product performance to support multi tenant deployments, and very large single tenant deployment in SAAS
Establish system performance benchmarks, performance dashboards
Proactively identify performance bottlenecks in product pre release and customer environments
Implement performance best practices
Mentor the performance team

Performance EngineeringPerformance TestingPerformance Analysis

Lead Performance Enginner

Apr 2017 – Oct 2020 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Optimize system performance
Build and Establish performance engineering tools and framework
Scale product performance by optimizing application platform and infrastructure
Scale product performance to support multi tenant deployments, and very large single tenant deployment in SAAS
Establish system performance benchmarks, performance dashboards
Proactively identify performance bottlenecks in product pre release and customer environments
Implement performance best practices
Mentor the performance team

Performance EngineeringPerformance TestingPerformance Analysis

Ibm

Senior Performance Engineer

Jan 2010 – Mar 2017 · 7 yrs 2 mos · Pune Area, India

Current Role & Responsibilities -
Creating Performance strategy/Test plans for all responsible products (CM, Spend, BI etc.)
Understanding performance requirement and Identifying performance test scenarios finalizing performance acceptance criteria with PM/BI.
Creating/managing Performance nodes/VMs/servers on VMsphere/ESX.
Creating/updating performance setup/ application deployment as per the release tech stack and H/w Sizing.
Writing and automating performance test cases using Jmeter, Rational Performance Tester and HP Load Runner.
Monitoring performance result and Performance engineering using New Relic, WAS profiler, UNIX performance monitoring tools, WAS a_console.
Working on production performance issues with DevOps and Support teams.
Execution of Load, Stress, Endurance and Volume test and performance result analysis and bottleneck identification.
Preparation of Final performance test summary report and Tuning and optimization document.
Application/Web Server Monitoring, JVM Tuning and database configurations.
Assisting Application Developers and technical support staff in identifying and resolving defects.
Providing Performance Engineering recommendations to development team/devOps teams for improvising performance.
Providing instrumentation information to development team about performance bottleneck like, which query is taking time, bottleneck methods/code tec.
Key Achievements –
Always delivered on schedule with good quality.
Successful in identifying performance bottlenecks on large enterprise deployments
Supported devOps in hardware capacity planning for large enterprise customer.
Provided timely interventions to ensure Customer satisfaction by changing performance strategy to adopt tools in compliance with Customer’s IT policy.
Implemented standardized, easy to use, hardware capacity planning document for use by tech sales and Pre-Sale
Implemented Sizing model for Analytics application for all type of customers (SMALL/MID, LARGE/XL customers).

Performance EngineeringPerformance TestingJMeterHP LoadRunnerNew Relic

Emptoris (acquired by ibm)

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer - Performance

Promoted

Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 · 2 yrs · Pune Area, India

Tracking security performance issues for release.
Working on production performance issues. Providing configurations to the Appserver, Web server and database for performance improvements.
Received Pat-On-Back award for implementing and streamlining complicated ETL application performance.

Performance EngineeringPerformance TestingETL