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Praveen N

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 11 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in performance engineering and optimization.
  • Proven track record in leading high-impact teams.
  • Extensive experience with cloud platforms and performance tools.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Performance Engineering expert in Cloud and SaaS environments.

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Skills

Core Skills

Performance EngineeringEngineering ManagementReliability EngineeringCloud Platform Management

Other Skills

Performance TuningPython (Programming Language)AnsibleKubernetesOracle DatabaseOracle Enterprise ManagerOracle SQL DeveloperOracle Fusion MiddlewareOpenShiftCloud ApplicationsGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Performance TestingTeam ManagementHigh Performance Computing (HPC)Communication

About

Performance Engineering Professional Performance engineering professional with extensive knowledge on performance testing and performance tuning recommendation.Performance engineering the open shift cloud Platform, Kubernetes and Docker management using CLI Utility . Web logic Server, Experienced in administrating application deployments and monitoring performance data. Performance Tools and Monitoring (Jmeter,HP Load Runner (9.0, 11.5)) Experienced in developing performance scripts in load runner. Applications which are scripted are Oracle, Siebel and other web application. Linux monitoring using linux command and Dynatrace. Grafana and Prometheus Analysis and Tuning Java, Experienced in performance engineering of java application. Reviewing Garbage Collector logs, Analyzing Thread dump and Heap dump and Jprofiler profile analysis.Oracle Application Testing Suite (OATS), Experienced in creating performance and functional scripts in OATS. Applications which are scripted are Oracle Fusion applications (HCM, FSCM, and Procurement) and Siebel. Programming Experience Python and Perl development : Experienced in developing python program for gathering necessary information for performance engineering analysis.Selenium Web driver, Developed selenium Automation framework for the functional automation scenarios in java and Perl. OS and Large Scale application Linux OS, Experienced in monitoring large scale Linux servers like Oracle Exa-logic and Oracle Exa-Data machines.Windows OS, Experienced in monitoring performance engineering information in windows.

Experience

19 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 10 mos
Current Experience

American express

3 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos · Hybrid

  • As a Senior Engineering Manager at American Express, I lead a high-impact team dedicated to ensuring our services meet the most demanding performance standards. With a passion for optimizing systems and building robust tooling, I drive initiatives that enhance application throughput, reduce latency, and empower engineering teams with data-driven insights. My leadership focuses on:
  • Performance Engineering: Architecting and overseeing load, stress, and scalability testing strategies.
  • Engineering Excellence: Collaborating across teams to embed performance best practices into the CI/CD pipeline.
  • Tool Development: Designing and delivering custom tools that automate testing, monitoring, and reporting, accelerating delivery cycles and elevating quality.
Performance TuningPython (Programming Language)AnsibleKubernetesOracle DatabaseOracle Enterprise Manager+7

Senior Performance Engineer and Reliability Engineer

Promoted

Aug 2022 – May 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Hybrid

  • Develop common framework components (to be demonstrated by enterprise applications), define standards for configuration, monitoring, reliability, and performance engineering.
  • Establish and supervise key performance indicators (important metrics) for runtime and resiliency and drive continuous improvement efforts to meet or exceed these metrics.
  • Provide technical leadership and guidance to the team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and accountability.
  • Act as a technical contributor by participating in architecture design, code reviews, and solving complex technical issues.
  • Design and implement innovative solution/framework that will improve software engineering velocity, infrastructure resiliency and security, and data availability.
  • Collaborates with leadership across teams to define solutions, technical implementation to drive software maturity and practices.
  • Drive the technical roadmap for runtime systems and SRE, ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our contact center and assisted servicing platforms.
Performance TuningPerformance TestingTeam ManagementHigh Performance Computing (HPC)Oracle SQL DeveloperCommunication+8

Cloud Platform Performance Engineer

May 2019 – Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Compared the Openshift container performance on VMware node on INTEL and AMD hardware.
  • Iterative analysis, modeling, testing, profiling of various java components of the PaaS and IaaS application.
  • Maintaining and enhancing production level tools and utilities.
  • Responding to and resolving technical problems and emergencies.
  • Developed framework for uploading performance metric in to influxdb which is executed from Jmeter.
  • Created a Dashboard visual in grafana for management,Developer and Engineering team to showcase the performance number with build wise comparing .
  • Developed Splunk dashboard for traffic monitoring and error monitoring.
  • Developed open shift cloud monitoring interface .
  • Responsible for End to End Cloud Platform Performance activity.
  • Red hat Open shift cloud Platform performance testing.
  • Managing the kubernates cluster.
  • Monitoring Dockers and services.
  • Tools used : Jmeter , Dynatrace, Grafana , Influx DB , MySQL, Kubernates , OCI utility for openshift , Dockers
OpenShiftJava components analysisProduction tools maintenanceTechnical problem resolutionJmeterDynatrace+8

Oracle india pvt. ltd

2 roles

Principle Cloud Performance Engineer

Oct 2021 – Aug 2022 · 10 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • End-to-End Performance Engineering for EMCC Cloud Product
  • Provide Performance Engineering Solution for Oracle Cloud Product.
  • Monitoring of KPI(Key performance Indicators)
  • Identification of Performance Bottlenecks
  • Analyse the Performance result and Perform the RCA ( Root Cause Analysis )
  • Build Tools required for the Performance activity.
  • Good Exposure to performance tools like Jmeter, OLT (Oracle Load Testing Suite)
  • Performance analysis on the thread dump , Heap dump and Jprofiling.
Performance EngineeringMonitoring KPIPerformance BottlenecksPerformance AnalysisJmeterOLT (Oracle Load Testing Suite)+3

Principal Member of Technical Staff

Jun 2015 – May 2019 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore

  • Working as Principal Member Technical staff for Performance Engineering
  • Plan performance engineering processes.
  • Responsible for end to end performance Activity for Oracle Enterprise Manager in Cloud (EM Saas) .
  • Setting up the EM SaaS with Hadoop,Kafka, Apache Solr.
  • Performance tuning of hadoop.
  • Performance optimization of Kafka.
  • Configuring web logic server with performance optimized tun-able (Web logic Configuration).
  • Getting Single User performance metric.
  • Depending on the Single user performance metric configure web logic server for the Scalability run (Sizing and scaling metric).
  • Analyze performance numbers and detecting problems applications (JRA, JRF record analysis).
  • Capacity planning of scale able components.
  • Automated Perl script for the collection of the performance metric on a Linux machine
Performance EngineeringHadoopKafkaApache SolrWeb logic server configurationSingle User performance metrics+2

Ibm (india software labs)

Performance Engineering and Sizing Technical Consultant

Sep 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr · Bangalore

  • Sizing Guide Technical Consultant for IBM Server and Technology Group
  • IBM Lab setup for ISV for all the performance bench marking needed for the hardware procurement.
  • Responsible for design and developing sizing guide for the ISV (Independent software vendors).
  • Analyzed results for Bottlenecks and made recommendations for the bottlenecks.
  • Analyze performance Metrics on Application server, Web server and database server.
  • Help ISV in Design, Developed and Executed the Test cases & performance scripts for Regression, and Performance.
Sizing GuidePerformance Metrics AnalysisTest case developmentPerformance scripts executionPerformance Engineering

Kpmg

Assistant Manager/Lead Performance Engineer

Aug 2013 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore

  • Assistant manager for Performance Management Consulting team
  • Analyzed results for Bottlenecks and made recommendations for the bottlenecks.
  • Monitored Metrics on Application server, Web server and database server.
  • Created rendezvous point for Performance test scenarios to find deadlocks.
  • Developed Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Summary Reports and Test Execution Metrics.
  • Developed and Executed the Test cases & scripts for Smoke, Functional, System, Regression, and Performance.
  • Involved in Business functionality review meetings and Use-Case Analysis and developing the templates for User/Customer Training and documentation.
  • Extensively used HP Load runner for Developing V user Scripts
  • Responsible for setting up monitors to monitor network activities and bottlenecks.
  • Installed Site-scope, and configured monitors for analysis.
  • Used Site Scope to get metrics from servers.
Performance ManagementTest Plans DevelopmentPerformance Test ScenariosHP Load RunnerNetwork activity monitoringPerformance Engineering

Oracle

3 roles

Oracle Fusion, Senior Member Technical staff

Jul 2007 – Jun 2009 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

  • Working a Senior Performance Engineer.
  • Plan performance engineering processes.
  • Responsible for end to end performance Activity for Fusion Apps.
  • Installation of web logic server.
  • Deploying Fusion Application on Web logic server.
  • Configuring web logic server with performance optimized tunable (Web logic Configuration).
  • Getting Single User performance metric.
  • Depending on the Single user performance metric configure web logic server for the Scalability run (Sizing and scaling metric).
  • Analyze performance numbers and detecting problems applications (JRA, JRF record analysis).
  • Automated Perl script for the collection of the performance metric on a Linux machine
Performance EngineeringWeb logic server installationFusion Application deploymentSingle User performance metricsPerl scripting

Oracle Fusion, Lead Performance Engg

Jan 2007 – Aug 2013 · 6 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore

  • Oracle Fusion, Lead Performance Engg
  • Plan performance engineering processes.
  • Responsible for end to end performance Activity for Fusion Apps.
  • Installation of web logic server.
  • Deploying Fusion Application on Web logic server.
  • Configuring web logic server with performance optimized tunable (Web logic Configuration).
  • Getting Single User performance metric.
  • Depending on the Single user performance metric configure web logic server for the Scalability run (Sizing and scaling metric).
  • Analyze performance numbers and detecting problems applications (JRA, JRF record analysis).
  • Automated Perl script for the collection of the performance metric on a Linux machine
Performance EngineeringWeb logic server installationFusion Application deploymentSingle User performance metricsPerl scripting

Oracle Fusion, Member Technical Staff

Jan 2007 – Jun 2007 · 5 mos · Bangalore

  • Working for Oracle Fusion Performance Team. Fusion is the Oracle's latest and New technology.
  • Plan performance engineering processes.
  • Responsible for end to end performance Activity for Fusion Apps.
  • Installation of web logic server.
  • Deploying Fusion Application on Web logic server.
  • Configuring web logic server with performance optimized tunable (Web logic Configuration).
  • Getting Single User performance metric.
  • Depending on the Single user performance metric configure web logic server for the Scalability run (Sizing and scaling metric).
  • Analyze performance numbers and detecting problems applications (JRA, JRF record analysis).
  • Automated Perl script for the collection of the performance metric on a Linux machine
Performance EngineeringWeb logic server installationFusion Application deploymentSingle User performance metricsPerl scripting

Ibm

Performance Engineer

Jun 2006 – Dec 2006 · 6 mos · Bangalore

  • Siebel Performance Engineering
  • Set up the environment (Installing Siebel APP/Web servers/Siebel Tools).
  • Plan performance engineering processes.
  • Responsible for end to end performance Activity for Siebel Application.
  • Supervised and ensured achievement of goals in projects
  • Monitored different aspects in Application performance.
  • Experienced in troubleshooting
  • Designed and set-up of operating system and servers.
  • Responsible for submitting and preparing defect reports.
Siebel Performance EngineeringEnvironment setupPerformance monitoringDefect report preparationPerformance Engineering

Education

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Bachelor's degree — Electronics and Communications Engineering

Jan 2000 – Jan 2004

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