Prasad Vishnu Lele
Mumbai
Summary
Performance Architect with 13+ years of experience in designing, validating, and governing non-functional architecture for large-scale, business-critical systems across BFSI, payments, trading platforms, core banking, and cloud-native microservices. Strong expertise in capacity planning, workload modeling, scalability analysis, and performance risk assessment, driving production readiness and go-live decisions.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager, Performance Architecture
BNP Paribas
01.2022 - Current
- - Owns performance architecture and NFR definition for domestic payments and regulatory platforms
- - Designs workload and capacity models aligned with peak banking and settlement scenarios
- - Leads scalability validation and performance risk assessment using JMeter and Dynatrace
- - Advises release and production readiness decisions for high-risk banking systems
Principal Quality Engineer / Performance Architect
ConnectWise
01.2019 - 01.2022
- - Defined performance architecture for cloud-native microservices processing 13,000+ TPS
- - Built CI/CD-integrated performance frameworks enabling continuous benchmarking
- - Correlated application, infrastructure, and APM metrics to surface systemic bottlenecks
Lead Performance Engineer
Synechron (Client: UBS)
01.2017 - 01.2019
- - Led performance engineering for investment banking and regulatory systems (MiFID II)
- - Delivered application, JVM, and database-level performance recommendations
Associate Test Lead (Performance Engineering)
Quality Kiosk Technologies
01.2012 - 01.2017
- - Led performance engineering across core banking, trading, CRM, mobile, and automobile platforms
- - Designed benchmarks for systems reaching 3,500 TPS and 40,000 concurrent users
- - Conducted COTS benchmarking for Finacle and Siebel with sizing and capacity guidance
- - Identified cross-layer bottlenecks spanning application, middleware, and infrastructure
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Telecommunications
Mumbai University
Skills
- Performance Architecture
- Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs)
- Capacity Planning & Workload Modeling
- Scalability & Throughput Engineering
- Latency & Bottleneck Analysis
- Performance Risk Assessment
- Distributed Systems Performance
- Observability & APM
- CI/CD Performance Integration
- Performance Tools: JMeter, LoadRunner, Performance Center, Silk Performer
- APM & Monitoring: Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Grafana, Splunk
- Cloud & Platforms: AWS, Kafka, MQ, Cassandra
- Languages & Scripting: Python, Java, Shell
- Servers & OS: Tomcat, WebLogic, WebSphere, IIS Linux, UNIX, Windows
Timeline
Manager, Performance Architecture
BNP Paribas
01.2022 - Current
Principal Quality Engineer / Performance Architect
ConnectWise
01.2019 - 01.2022
Lead Performance Engineer
Synechron (Client: UBS)
01.2017 - 01.2019
Associate Test Lead (Performance Engineering)
Quality Kiosk Technologies
01.2012 - 01.2017
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Telecommunications
Mumbai University