Bhavana T
Lead Performance Engineer
Abu Dhabi,UAE
Summary
Lead Performance Engineer having 10 years of experience with expertise in implementing and managing enterprise-grade APM tools like Dynatrace, AppDynamics, and New Relic for end-to-end application observability.
Proficient in transaction tracing, service maps, synthetic monitoring, and real user monitoring (RUM) to ensure optimal application health and user experience.
Skilled in performance tuning, anomaly detection, and root cause analysis across distributed systems, microservices, and Kubernetes-based environments.
Experienced in integrating APM solutions with CI/CD pipelines, automating alerting, and defining SLOs/SLAs to drive a performance-centric culture. Proficient in tools like JMeter, K6, JProfiler and APM solutions, with a strong focus on CI/CD integration and observability. Skilled in architecture reviews, building reusable testing frameworks, and driving performance improvements across web, mobile, and desktop platforms.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
5
5
Certifications
Work History
Lead Performance Engineer
Tekion
04.2025 - Current
- Proficient in End-to-End performance testing, encompassing NFR gathering, test planning, scripting, workload modeling, execution, analysis, reporting and documentation.
- Led the design and execution of performance tests for numerous web and mobile applications, employing tools such as JMeter and K6.
- Investigated complex performance issues, providing detailed analysis reports that led to successful resolutions.
- Well accomplished in performance analysis, server architecture, server performance and database performance fine-tuning for clients.
- Developed custom monitoring tools to track application metrics, enabling proactive issue identification and resolution.
- Established performance benchmarks, allowing for regular assessment of system improvements or regressions over time.
- Enhanced application responsiveness with rigorous load testing and capacity planning.
- Experienced in exploring front end performance testing using Sitespeed.io, WebPageTest.
- Mentored junior engineers on best practices related to performance engineering, fostering a culture of technical excellence within the team.
- Conducted regular training sessions on performance engineering concepts for non-technical stakeholders, ensuring alignment on key objectives throughout the company.
Senior Performance Engineer
Tekion Corp
01.2022 - 03.2025
- Proficient in End-to-End performance testing, encompassing NFR gathering, test planning, scripting, workload modeling, execution, analysis, reporting and documentation.
- Led the design and execution of performance tests for numerous web and mobile applications, employing tools such as JMeter and K6.
- Collaborated with Architects, Business Analysts, and Developers to develop comprehensive test plans aligned with project requirements.
- Developed test scripts to replicate realistic user scenarios, including load, stress, and endurance tests.
- Demonstrated in-depth analysis of test results, pinpointing performance bottlenecks like memory leaks, network latency, and CPU utilization.
- Partnered with cross-functional teams to review test plans, analyze results and implement performance optimizations, ensuring code changes positively impact application performance.
- Well accomplished in performance analysis, server architecture, server performance and database performance fine-tuning for clients.
- Good Experience in Benchmarking of services or applications.
- Knowledge on UI performance testing using tools like Chrome dev tools, Site speed.
- Good knowledge on scripting languages like Python and Shell script.
- Leveraged monitoring tools such as Elasticsearch APM, AWS CloudWatch and VisualVM to monitor application performance and identify issues.
- Well versed with IBM thread dump analyzer and Eclipse Memory analyzer tool to debug issues with thread and heap of the application.
- Good understanding of different GC Algorithms and analyzing GC logs to improve heap usage in the application.
- Demonstrated expertise in Microservice architecture hosted on cloud platforms like AWS and Azure.
- Worked on managing various databases including MongoDB, MySQL and Elasticsearch, and creating reports and dashboards using Grafana and Kibana to track performance trends.
- Proficient in both Linux and Windows operating systems.
- Have expertise in automating tasks within the scope of performance engineering activities using Jenkins. Ex. Thread dump automation.
- Posses Strong collaboration skills for systems tuning, coupled with meticulous attention to detail and exceptional analytical abilities.
Performance Engineer
Tekion Corp
01.2020 - 01.2022
- Led planning, design, and load modeling for a critical module of the product.
- Proficient in scripting complex scenarios.
- Conducted various performance tests (load, stress, chaos) for web applications using JMeter.
- Designed and executed performance tests for mobile application using JMeter.
- Analyzed test results, pinpointing performance bottlenecks like response time, throughput, memory and CPU issues.
- Collaborated closely with developers to validate issues and propose enhancements.
- Developed shell scripts for database maintenance and management.
- Automated shell scripts for running thread and heap dumps via Jenkins.
- Created scripts to manage infra components during inactive periods.
- Contributed to setting up test environments using AWS.
- Proficient in analyzing heap dumps, thread dumps, and GC logs.
- Worked on parsing and filtering MongoDB logs using Mtools.
- Utilized monitoring tools like Cloud-watch, VisualVM, and APM for application performance monitoring.
- Provided training to new hires and junior team members.
- Managed a team comprising two members.
Module Lead
Mindtree Ltd
07.2019 - 12.2019
- Performed load testing using Soasta, Jmeter and LoadRunner to ensure the performance and scalability of the applications.
- Utilized Dynatrace, Grafana, CloudWatch, AppDynamics, Application Insights and logs in Splunk for monitoring and analyzing application performance.
- Implemented continuous integration and deployment pipelines using Jenkins.
- Worked in an Agile methodology, participating in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
- Prepared test reports in confluence and logging issues if any in Jira.
- Worked in Linux machines and have basic knowledge on integrating tests in Jenkins.
- Having collaborative spirit, would regularly have interaction with Client, Managers and Team members.
- Providing Knowledge transfer sessions and training sessions to team members.
Senior Engineer
Mindtree Ltd
07.2017 - 07.2019
- Performed load testing using Soasta, Jmeter and LoadRunner to ensure the performance and scalability of the applications.
- Utilized Dynatrace, Grafana, CloudWatch, AppDynamics, Application Insights and logs in splunk for monitoring and analyzing application performance.
- Implemented continuous integration and deployment pipelines using Jenkins.
- Worked in an Agile methodology, participating in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
- Prepared test reports in confluence and logging issues if any in Jira.
- Worked in Linux machines and have basic knowledge on integrating tests in Jenkins.
- Having collaborative spirit, would regularly have interaction with Client, Managers and Team members.
- Providing Knowledge transfer sessions and training sessions to team members.
Software Engineer
Mindtree Ltd
07.2015 - 07.2017
- Developed and maintained software applications using Java and related technologies.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and design software solutions.
- Performed load testing using Jmeter and LoadRunner to ensure the performance and scalability of the applications.
- Utilized Dynatrace and Grafana for monitoring and analyzing application performance.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
SJBIT
Bengaluru, India 04.2001 -
Skills
Jmeter, LoadRunner, K6
Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, APM Elasticsearch, AWS cloudwatch
JProfiler
OpenTelemetry
WebPageTest / Sitespeedio
Performance Baseline & Bottleneck Analysis
Workload Modeling & Concurrency Analysis
Jenkins, GitLab
AWS
Kubernetes, Microservice architecture
Java, Shell script
Certification
MongoDB Operations Foundation for MongoDB Atlas, MongoDB
Timeline
Lead Performance Engineer
Tekion
04.2025 - Current
MongoDB Operations Foundation for MongoDB Atlas, MongoDB
06-2024
Post Graduate Certifcate in Product Management, Duke Corporate Education
06-2023
Senior Performance Engineer
Tekion Corp
01.2022 - 03.2025
Performance Engineer
Tekion Corp
01.2020 - 01.2022
Module Lead
Mindtree Ltd
07.2019 - 12.2019
Python Data Structures, University of Michigan
06-2019
Jmeter Certifcation for completing the training and project, Spring people
01-2019
Certifcation for completing the training and project on LoadRunner, Spring people
01-2018
Senior Engineer
Mindtree Ltd
07.2017 - 07.2019
Software Engineer
Mindtree Ltd
07.2015 - 07.2017
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
SJBIT
04.2001 -
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