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Vivekanand Dalavi

Summary

Results-driven Performance Engineering leader with 9+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and optimizing performance, load, and resilience testing platforms for large-scale Ecommerce, Retail, Supply Chain, and Banking systems. Currently driving Performance & SRE initiatives at Falabella India, with strong expertise in building scalable performance testing frameworks, observability solutions, and AI-enabled capabilities for retail digital platforms.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Engineer – Performance & SRE

Falabella India
05.2022 - Current

Project: Ecommerce & Logistics Platform (OMS, Express Delivery, Ecom, Catalog, Home Delivery)

Serving as Performance & SRE Engineer for Falabella’s Logistics domain, supporting critical retail operations across global markets.

Designed, developed, and currently maintain the organization’s Gatling-based Performance Testing Framework, enabling scalable and reusable performance testing.

Actively exploring and integrating GenAI and Agentic AI tools to automate test script generation, enable intelligent workload modeling, anomaly detection in metrics & logs, and accelerate performance analysis.

Introduced and implemented Chaos Engineering practices using Gremlin, Chaos Mesh, and LitmusChaos to proactively identify resilience gaps and improve system reliability under failure conditions.

Led end-to-end performance testing lifecycle covering requirement analysis, test strategy, execution, monitoring, bottleneck identification, and production issue resolution.

Developed internal automation utilities (Access Log Analyzer, Heap/Thread Dump Collector, etc.) to streamline metrics collection and speed up troubleshooting for the team.

Designed and implemented monitoring dashboards using Datadog and Grafana for real-time visibility into application and infrastructure performance.

Performed database performance tuning and optimization on PostgreSQL and MySQL.

Built a Java-based configuration management application to support business teams with dynamic settings.

Software Engineer - II

One Network Enterprises Ltd.
01.2021 - 05.2022

Requirement gathering, Test Plan, Test script writing, Execution, Analysis and Reporting.

Prepared Workload model to perform Performance & Load testing. - Analyzed AWR reports to highlight DB bottlenecks & provided SQL query tuning suggestions.

Identified bottlenecks on application, database and network layers & recommended improvements.

Senior Software Engineer

Avekshaa Technology
05.2017 - 06.2021
  • Led performance testing and engineering for JioMart and multiple large-scale e-commerce platforms, defining test strategy and validation criteria.
  • Conducted Java process profiling and memory/CPU analysis to identify hotspots and collaborated with development teams to implement performance improvements.
  • Designed and executed realistic load scenarios to validate throughput, latency and stability under peak conditions.
  • Delivered performance testing for Payments, Money Wallet, and Core Banking applications, validating throughput, latency, and stability under load.
  • Tested critical components including Payment Gateway, Fraud Detection (Feedzai), and core systems; identified hotspots and recommended optimizations.
  • Coordinated with cross-functional teams to ensure performance requirements were met during development and production deployments.

Education

Bachelor’s in Engineering - Electronics

Pune University
04.2001 -

Skills

Performance & Load Testing: Gatling, JMeter, K6, LoadRunner

Chaos Engineering: Gremlin, Chaos Mesh, LitmusChaos

GenAI in Performance: AI-powered test generation, intelligent workload modeling, anomaly detection

Monitoring & Observability: Datadog, Grafana, AppDynamics

Others: Platform Engineering, Performance Dashboards, Stakeholder Management, Agile & DevOps

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer – Performance & SRE

Falabella India
05.2022 - Current

Software Engineer - II

One Network Enterprises Ltd.
01.2021 - 05.2022

Senior Software Engineer

Avekshaa Technology
05.2017 - 06.2021

Bachelor’s in Engineering - Electronics

Pune University
04.2001 -
Vivekanand Dalavi