Dinesh Kumar
Load & Performance Engineer · 5 years experience
Jaipur, Rajasthan
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Professional Summary
- Skilled Load & Performance Engineer with 5 years of expertise in designing and executing load tests for high-traffic services
- Proficient in JMeter and Gatling for comprehensive performance testing
- Experienced in cloud-based load testing and capacity planning
- Knowledgeable in performance tuning and bottleneck identification
- Adept at creating monitoring dashboards for performance metrics
- Familiar with scalability testing and promotional event capacity planning
- Collaborative professional working with development teams on optimizations
- Strong analytical skills for performance data analysis and recommendations
Project Experience
Streaming Platform Capacity Planning
Conducted load testing for a streaming platform during promotional events, planning capacity for 1M+ concurrent users and optimizing performance. Technologies: JMeter, Cloud Platforms, Monitoring Tools.
E-commerce Peak Load Testing
Designed and executed load tests for e-commerce platform, identifying bottlenecks and recommending optimizations for Black Friday traffic. Technologies: Gatling, Profiling Tools, SQL.
API Performance Validation
Performed load testing on REST APIs, creating dashboards for metrics tracking and ensuring scalability under high loads. Technologies: JMeter, Monitoring Tools, Docker.
AI-Driven Load Testing for LLM Inference API
Implemented k6 load testing for an LLM inference API endpoint, profiling latency under concurrent requests (10/100/1000 TPS), detecting P95 response time degradation, and implementing AI anomaly detection on metrics time-series for automatic threshold alerting. Used ML-based traffic forecasting for proactive capacity planning. Technologies: k6, AI Anomaly Detection, ML-based Capacity Planning, LLM Latency Testing, Prometheus, Grafana, AWS.
Work Experience
Load & Performance Engineer
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5 years of experience as a Load & Performance Engineer at tech companies in Jaipur. Specialized in load testing, capacity planning, and performance optimization for web services.
Responsibilities
- Design and execute load test scenarios for applications
- Run scalability tests and analyze performance under load
- Profile system bottlenecks and provide optimization recommendations
- Create monitoring dashboards for performance metrics
- Collaborate with development teams on performance fixes
- Plan capacity for high-traffic events and promotions
- Document performance testing results and recommendations
- Maintain performance testing environments and tools
- Use k6 for modern cloud-native load testing, implement AI anomaly detection on performance metrics, profile LLM inference latency, and apply ML-based capacity planning for peak traffic prediction