Praveen Prasad
Pune
Summary
Performance Engineer/Architect with 17+ years of experience optimizing system performance, analyzing complex issues, and designing efficient infrastructure solutions. Thrives on tackling challenging projects head-on, adept at adapting to new technologies and tools. Proven track record of building robust performance automation frameworks and effectively debugging performance bottlenecks across diverse platforms. Brings wealth of experience and passion for driving continuous improvement to every role.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Software Engineer, Performance and Database Architecture (Real Time Payments)
ACI Worldwide
04.2013 - Current
- Led Non-Functional testing efforts for ACI's latest Payments framework, Immediate Payments, enabling financial institutions, payments processors, and retailers to effectively run their existing infrastructures and quickly embrace new market opportunities
- Spearheaded efforts for certifying product on various platforms along with High Availability NFR requirements
Key Achievements:
- Achieved 5k TPS goal for UPI (Clients: HDFC and State Bank of India) on IP/UP Framework in containerized mode, marking ACI's first Cloud implementation
- Attained 2K TPS goal for CI HUB (Client: Bank Indonesia), contributing to major product tuning to scale from 400 TPS to 2K TPS, along with various failover testing across sites
- Extensively worked on APSF (Agile Payments Framework), testing for High Availability and standardizing framework for performance tuning
- Developed simulators for load testing, both client and server, to handle high TPS
- Created extensive entrance criteria framework for performance testing, improving delivery timelines, product quality, and test repeatability
- Key contributor to performance tool adoption, facilitating team's transition from HP LoadRunner to Microfocus Silkperformer and advocating for Jmeter adoption
- Analyzed and adopted APM tools like Dynatrace and Appdynamics for organization
- Contributed to capacity planning for new customer installations by generating T-shirt sizing model based on workload factors provided by customers
- Currently contributing to RTPS Performance Regression Test Framework implementation in Azure Cloud
Team Lead - Performance & Automation Testing
ATOS
03.2011 - 04.2013
- Assumed end-to-end responsibility for performance testing and scripting of 2 applications, ensuring optimal application performance and user experience
- Guaranteed that Additional Software Requirement (ASR) and Change Requirement (CR) scripting met the highest quality standards, resulting in a 98% acceptance rate
- Actively participated in various performance tests on the Client pre-production application setup, identifying and resolving 50+ performance bottlenecks
- Prepared comprehensive test data, scripts, and executed tests, analyzing results and generating detailed test reports, reducing overall testing cycle time by 30%
- Conducted feasibility analysis for new ASRs and CRs, providing expert recommendations that influenced product roadmap decisions
Internally prepared Critical Application Reviews (CAR), Handover Documents (HOT), and facilitated knowledge transfer sessions, ensuring smooth project transitions and team alignment - Led a team of 8 performance engineers, presenting weekly QA status updates to Project Managers in Front Office and Back Office, fostering transparency and effective communication
Senior Engineer, QA
PTC
06.2005 - 01.2013
- Established and maintained the EPM Performance Automation Network, supporting a client web server application
- Conducted comprehensive performance automation and load tests using Silkperformer, increasing application performance by 30%
- Generated and analyzed performance reports, closely collaborating with the development team to identify and resolve reported bugs, reducing bug resolution time by 25%
- Actively participated in database performance testing and tuning, resulting in a 20% improvement in database query response times
Installed Statspack and generated snapshots for database query performance analysis, leading to the optimization of 50+ SQL queries - Mentored and trained a team of 5 junior performance engineers, enhancing the team's overall efficiency by 40%
Education
BSc Business Information Systems -
YCMOU Nasik
Pune01.2009
Diploma in Tool and Die Making -
GTTC Mysore, Karnataka
Mysore01.2001
SSLC -
St. Johns P.U Collage Bellary, Karnataka
Bellary01.1997
Skills
- Jmeter
- Linux (RHEL)
- Java
- Python
- Shell Scripting
- Co-Pilot Claude
Expert in building frameworks for performance testing and scripts for log and performance analysis
Extracurricularskills
Photography: Passionate about portrait photography and documenting daily life. I have also shot few weddings of friends and family., Guitar: Being a music buff gravitated towards Guitar naturally and spent years learning. Eventually realized that I am tone deaf (cannot differentiate between C chord and G Chord), but still love playing simple tunes or rhythm guitar., Greylabs - Beacon School Bus Tracking System, Helped as a consultant for a school bus tracking app. The app was build on a huge backend system based on MERN framework. Helped the team to move to a simple serverless application using google firebase and scale the app faster., Trubelle.com.au - Australian E-Commerce Website, I have experience building print on demand ecommerce business and helped build and manage Trubelle as a drop shipping website. I am the co-founder and partner and provide technical assistance in maintaining the website. This website experience has given me great insight into digital marketing and e-commerce, Enrolled in the Theocratic Ministry School, part of my spiritual school which focuses on skills namely, Public Speaking, Presentation, Reading, Organizing and Researching on any given topic.
Awardsandactivities
- Certificate of Merit - 2nd rank in the final year examinations in Diploma
- Performance Awards for UPI and CI HUB Projects
- Performance Awards for Windchill 9.0 Release Stream
Certification
ISTQB Certified 2011
Additional Information
Startup Experience
Greylabs Software Solutions - Consultant
- Spearheaded a complete re-architecture of the company's app, migrating from MEAN stack to Google Firebase
- Achieved significant cost savings on server expenses and dramatically reduced system complexity through the re-architecture initiative
- Provided strategic consulting services for Shopify website development and Meta ads optimization
- Implemented effective strategies that led to a remarkable 15x increase in monthly revenue
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer, Performance and Database Architecture (Real Time Payments)
ACI Worldwide
04.2013 - Current
Team Lead - Performance & Automation Testing
ATOS
03.2011 - 04.2013
Senior Engineer, QA
PTC
06.2005 - 01.2013
BSc Business Information Systems -
YCMOU Nasik
Diploma in Tool and Die Making -
GTTC Mysore, Karnataka
SSLC -
St. Johns P.U Collage Bellary, Karnataka
ISTQB Certified 2011
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