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SIVASHANKAR

Kanyakumari

Summary

Proven expertise in performance testing, optimization, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) for complex, mission-critical applications in cloud-native environments. Skilled in DevOps, Platform Engineering, and automation to ensure seamless deployment, monitoring, and scalability. Experienced in leveraging containerization (AKS, Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible), and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic). Proficient in optimizing messaging systems (Azure Service Bus, Kafka, IBM MQ) and databases (Oracle, MSSQL, MongoDB) to enhance system reliability, performance, and scalability.

Overview

2
2
years of professional experience

Work History

Associate Performance Test Engineer

Volante Technologies
Chennai
01.2023 - Current

Projects:

  • RBC-ACH(Royal Bank of Canada-Automated Clearing House) - Implemented performance testing and optimization for ACH payments, ensuring efficient credit transfers and direct debits. Validated AKS auto-scaling and auto-healing to maintain stability under varying workloads. Integrated New Relic monitoring in a containerized environment and used JMeter UI scripts with Grafana and InfluxDB for performance analysis. Automated Kafka and IBM MQ deployment with Ansible, reducing manual effort. Optimized container memory usage for better resource efficiency, and automated test report generation using Selenium and Grafana for streamlined performance analysis.
  • RBC-Fedwire (Royal Bank of Canada - Fedwire) - Optimized Fedwire payments' performance and scalability in an Azure-based, containerized environment. Ensured high availability with AKS auto-scaling, auto-healing, Azure Service Bus, Kafka, and IBM MQ. Tested API responsiveness to maintain system efficiency and reliability.
  • IKANO(Sweden) - Performed end-to-end performance testing, identifying and resolving memory leaks and bottlenecks. Optimized garbage collection and resource-heavy SFTP connections using RabbitMQ, MongoDB, and AKS. Pinpointed SFTP thread issues via JMX remote monitoring and VisualVM for enhanced efficiency

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

Francis Xavier Engineering College
Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India
07-2022

Skills

Monitoring

  • Prometheus, Grafana
  • Azure monitoring
  • New-Relic

Analysis tools

  • MAT(Memory Analyser Tool)
  • EFK(ElasticSearch, Fluentd, Kibana)
  • AWR(Automatic Workload Repository)

Containerization

  • Kubernetes

Databases

  • Oracle
  • MSSQL

Operating Systems

  • Linux,
  • Windows

Middleware Applications

  • IBMMQ,
  • Kafka-Zookeeper Clustering, RabbitMQ Clustering

IT automation

  • Ansible
  • Terraform

Testing Tools

  • JMeter
  • Selenium

Timeline

Associate Performance Test Engineer

Volante Technologies
01.2023 - Current

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

Francis Xavier Engineering College
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