Jamal Faik
Portland,OR
Summary
Highly accomplished Senior Member of Technical Staff (SMTS) and Software Performance Engineer with 15+ years of experience leading Performance, Scalability, and Reliability (PSR) initiatives for large-scale enterprise systems, including Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Expert in root-cause analysis, low-latency optimization, and full-stack development of diagnostic tools. Proven success in designing and implementing microservices-based performance analysis platforms utilizing Java, Python, Docker, and Kubernetes to enhance cloud service reliability and efficiency. Seeking to leverage deep expertise in distributed systems and performance engineering in a challenging new role.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Member of Technical Staff / Software Performance Engineer
Oracle America
03.2010 - 09.2025
- Cloud Performance Tool Development (PCL): Designed, developed, and maintained critical components of the Performance Cloud Lifeguard (PCL), a proprietary performance logs analysis tool used by the PSR team to diagnose and root-cause complex performance issues across the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
- Microservices and DevOps: Developed PCL within a microservices-based architecture, utilizing Docker and Kubernetes for robust containerization, deployment, and scaling, Jenkins for pipeline management and GIT for comprehensive source code management.
- Full-Stack CLI Development: Engineered and implemented a complete Command Line Interface (CLI) in Java to enable efficient user interaction with PCL, managing command capture, version control, and security/authentication workflows.
- Review and enhance security for multiple tools used with the Oracle PSR tools team (remove PII, add authentication/authorization by integrating with Oracle Identity Management)
- SQL Performance Integration: Developed an interface to connect PCL with an in-house static SQL command analyzer, enabling automated detection and reporting of database-level performance issues and potential bottlenecks.
- Diagnosability Tools: Developed data visualization tools for Oracle Public Cloud Diagnosability and Reliability, leveraging the ELK stack (Elastic Search & Kibana) and Graphite for real-time performance monitoring.
- Performance & Regression Analysis: Provided subject matter expertise in performance and regression testing for key Oracle products (e.g., Exalogic, Oracle Coherence) and evaluated new JVM tuning configurations.
Education
Ph.D. - Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY01.2005
Skills
- Cloud & DevOps: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Microservices, Containerization (Docker), Orchestration (Kubernetes), CI/CD Principles, GIT, Linux
- Performance & Analysis: Performance Engineering, Scalability, Reliability (PSR), Root-Cause Analysis, Low-Latency Optimization, Performance Regression Testing using industry benchmarks, Dynamic Load Balancing
- Languages & Frameworks: Java, Python, C, Shell Scripting, CLI Development
- Monitoring & Big Data: Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash (ELK Stack), Grafana
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
French
Native or Bilingual
Arabic
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Senior Member of Technical Staff / Software Performance Engineer
Oracle America
03.2010 - 09.2025
Ph.D. - Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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