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Ganesh Ramanathan

Performance Architect
Bangalore

Summary

Performance Architect with 11+ years of experience in enabling performance processes, tools, teams, and labs for enterprise products. Expertise in performance engineering, continuous monitoring, JVM tuning, GC log analysis, DB optimization, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Skilled in troubleshooting complex systems across retail, BFS, and insurance sectors. Proficient in microservices, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Cassandra, and CI/CD pipelines. Specialized in identifying critical performance bottlenecks and optimizing end-to-end performance. Proven track record of leading teams and enhancing system efficiency for customer-facing applications.

Overview

2025
2025
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Performance Engineering Consultant

Blue Yonder India Private Limited
3 2018 - Current
  • Delivered performance engineering consultation for various customer implementations of BY Products hosted on Azure, GCP, and BY platforms, leveraging a microservices architecture with Kubernetes.
  • Provided production sizing recommendations for peak season and promotional sales periods
  • Developed Java-based performance test automation framework with JMeter, boosting team efficiency by 30%.
  • Identified and resolved performance bottlenecks in production and pre-production environments.
  • Contributed to cloud migration and AI-driven order replenishment projects.
  • Extensive experience with JMeter, Gatling, Grafana, Azure, GCP, OpenShift, Stackdriver, OEM, Jira, Kafka, Cassandra DB, and Hazelcast.
  • Mentored peers and provided best practices on performance engineering.
  • Supported project planning and execution efforts relating to technical documentation and process development.

Senior Performance Engineer

Wipro Limited
09.2017 - 03.2018
  • Provided performance consulting for banking customer, ensuring industry standards and customer satisfaction.
  • Documented key deliverables such as Non-Functional Requirements, Test Plans, Test Strategy, and Route-to-Live designs.
  • Led cost and resource estimation, team coordination, and testing strategy development, delivering daily and weekly status reports to both project team and client governance.
  • Managed test script creation, test data management, and environment scaling and setup for performance testing.
  • Set up performance monitoring in testing environment and delivered Go-Live recommendations through comprehensive end-of-test reports.

Performance Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
09.2013 - 09.2017
  • Worked with retail banking and insurance clients to assess impacted components early, identifying risks and need for Non-Functional Testing.
  • Documented Non-Functional Requirements, Test Plans, Test Strategy, and Route-to-Live designs, ensuring alignment with industry standards and client expectations.
  • Worked on test script creation, test data management, and environment scaling and setup for performance testing.
  • Designed and executed performance test scenarios based on client-specific requirements, incorporating environment performance monitoring.
  • Analyzed JVM performance issues related to garbage collection and memory leaks, ensuring system stability.
  • Conducted mobile performance testing using Load Runner and Fiddler.
  • Designed and implemented varied performance workload scenarios tailored to client needs.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in ECE -

PSG College of Technology
Coimbatore, India
06.2009 - 04.2013

12th Standard -

S.R.V. Higher Secondary School
Rasipuram, India
06.2007 - 04.2009

Skills

Performance Analysis

Software

JMeter

Load Runner

Gatling

Grafana

Dynatrace

AppDynamics

Microsoft Azure

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Kubernetes

Cassandra

MongoDB

Oracle

Java

Python

Shell Scripting

Git Action

Jenkins

Apache Kafka

Hazelcast IMDG

Elasticsearch

RESTful APIs

Timeline

Senior Performance Engineer

Wipro Limited
09.2017 - 03.2018

Performance Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
09.2013 - 09.2017

Bachelor of Engineering in ECE -

PSG College of Technology
06.2009 - 04.2013

12th Standard -

S.R.V. Higher Secondary School
06.2007 - 04.2009

Senior Performance Engineering Consultant

Blue Yonder India Private Limited
3 2018 - Current
Ganesh RamanathanPerformance Architect