Hi, I’m
VINOD KUMAR GOVINDARAJAN
Summary
Seasoned and results-driven Performance Engineering Lead with over 16+ years of progressive experience in performance testing, tuning, monitoring, and capacity planning for enterprise-level applications. Expert in load testing, bottleneck analysis, system diagnostics, and root cause analysis across cloud-native, microservices, and legacy environments. Adept at leveraging tools like LoadRunner, JMeter, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Elastic APM, Grafana and Splunk, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure optimal system performance and scalability. Proven ability to lead testing efforts across multiple projects, define strategies, and ensure optimal system performance under various loads.
Overview
16
years of professional experience
1
Certification
Work History
Wells Fargo Pvt Ltd
Lead Software Engineer
03.2025 - Current
Job overview
- Leading a team of 15 members, providing guidance, support, and direction to ensure successful project delivery.
- Assigned tasks and projects to team members based on their strengths and expertise, ensuring efficient workflow and meeting deadlines.
- Provided technical guidance and support to team members, resolving complex issues and improving overall team productivity.
- Conducted daily reviews of team members' work, providing feedback and guidance to ensure high-quality output.
Wells Fargo Pvt Ltd
Senior Software Engineer
04.2022 - 02.2025
Job overview
- Designed and implemented enterprise-wide performance engineering strategies across microservices and cloud platforms.
- Led performance testing efforts for 10+ high-traffic applications, reducing average transaction response time by 40%.
- Integrated performance testing with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, enabling automated regression tests and early detection of performance issues.
- Utilized Elastic APM and AppDynamics for server monitoring, resulting in a 50% reduction in production incidents.
BA Continuum India Pvt Ltd (Bank of America)
Senior Analyst
09.2015 - 04.2022
Job overview
- Monitoring the Applications under test, analyze for bottlenecks to improve Performance/Throughput.
- Possess knowledge over Thread Pool, Connection Pool and other JVM related monitoring & tuning.
- Simulating the MQ traffic using Java Vuser protocol and debugging MQ traffic flow issues using APPWatch.
- Simulating (Scripting) the business transactions based on business requirement using WEB HTML/HTTP, Webservices.
- Preparation of workload modeling.
- Involved in Status meetings and discussions/workarounds for showstopper issues that surfaced during performance testing.
- Identifying and notifying to application team about the issues and functionalities with Performance degradation for proper actions to be taken to enhance the applications performance.
Inautix Technologies Pvt Ltd (BNY)
Senior Performance & Availability Engineer
06.2011 - 08.2015
Job overview
- Developed and executed performance test scripts using JMeter and LoadRunner, simulating realistic user loads for web and API-based applications.
- Performed load, stress, and endurance testing, identifying memory leaks, slow SQL queries, and thread contention issues.
- Collaborated with development and DevOps teams to tune application performance based on findings from Dynatrace and AppDynamics.
- Authored performance test plans and reports, highlighting system behavior under peak loads and proposing optimization strategies.
Emergys Software Pvt Ltd
Test Engineer
02.2009 - 06.2011
Job overview
- Develops test plans, identifies test objectives, and defines test scope.
- Creates and maintains JMeter test scripts, including HTTP requests, assertions, and data extraction.
- Executes JMeter tests, monitors test results, and analyzes performance metrics.
- Analyzes test results, identifies performance bottlenecks, and provides recommendations for improvement.
- Works with development teams to identify and resolve performance issues.
- Sets up and configures JMeter test environments, including distributed testing.
- Generates reports on test results, including performance metrics and recommendations.
Education
Jeppiaar Engineering CollegeChennai, India
Bachelor of Engineering from Computer Science
05-2007
Skills
- OpenText LoadRunner V251
- Apache Jmeter
- AppDynamics
- Dynatrace
- Elastic Search
- Splunk
- Grafana
- HP BSM & BPM Suite
- HP RUM
- HP Diagnostic
- Oracle
- MySQL
Certification
Microsoft Azure 900 fundamentals
Strengths
- Team Leadership & Development
- Resource Allocation – Monitoring
- Strategic Business Planning & Analysis
- Business Continuance Techniques/Skill
- Solutions Analysis/Implementation
- Programs & Projects Management
Timeline
Lead Software Engineer
Wells Fargo Pvt Ltd
03.2025 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Wells Fargo Pvt Ltd
04.2022 - 02.2025
Senior Analyst
BA Continuum India Pvt Ltd (Bank of America)
09.2015 - 04.2022
Senior Performance & Availability Engineer
Inautix Technologies Pvt Ltd (BNY)
06.2011 - 08.2015
Test Engineer
Emergys Software Pvt Ltd
02.2009 - 06.2011
Jeppiaar Engineering College
Bachelor of Engineering from Computer Science
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