Pramod Thakkar

Experience

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  HSBC

  Aug 2005 - Jul 2012

  * Work with Business and Development teams to understand the performance assessment requirements of application* Define performance assessment strategy, create SoW and plan* Ensure quality of deliveribles, project cost and timelines* Work with offshore extended teams in India and Brazil to coordinate / manage scripting, performance assessments* Involvement in performance execution phase to monitor server statistics (generally WebSphere Application Server) and identifying areas of bottlenecks along with environment support and development team and providing recommendations on capacity planning Show less * Assessed performance of over 100 applications / versions.* Applications majorly Java based running on WebSphere Application Servers* Most of the applications on Multi-tier infrastructure (Application server, DB, messaging engine, Mainframe systems and other processing engines / applications)* Understanding project requirement, Working on SoW, Performance engagement/assessment plan* HP Performance Center Scripting* Executing performance assessment to thoroughly test the performance of application from all aspects* Analysis of performance data / metrics (typically host server metrics and JVM performance along with HP Performance Center data)* Recommend areas of performance improvement to dev/application teams* Publishing and presenting detailed document report to various teams Show less

  • Senior Analyst - Technical Project Manager

    Mar 2011 - Jul 2012

  • Consultant Specialist

    Aug 2005 - Mar 2011
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  Riverbed Technology

  Jul 2012 - now

  Application Performance Management (Professional Services)* Specialized consultant for Riverbed’s Application Performance Management suite: AppInternals, AppResponse and AppTransaction Xpert. The tools include Application and Networks performance management.* Working with customers to identify tool deployment strategy* Instrument application / various servers and identify appropriate level of monitoring and instrumentation* Analyze performance of application, identify areas of improvement, provide recommendations and present analysis data to various technical teams / groups* Application analysis: Application, Server, Database, Storage and OS level analysis: code profiling data, server and host level statistics, system logs and server level dump and core files* Network analysis: Throughput, packet loss, connections, latency, protocol and packet/frame level analysis on TCP/IP level* Recommend application / environment scaling and deployment strategy for customers* Knowledge transfer for customers on Riverbed products* Creating dashboards with alerts typically for production monitoring that include complete end-to-end environment monitoring for proactive identification of issuesUnderstanding of JVM, CLR, WAS, JBOSS, Apache TomCat, IIS, MSSQL, MySQL, Oracle, DB2, Storage SystemsStrong experience working with customer's onsite and remotely Show less

  • Lead Performance Consultant

    Dec 2014 - now

  • Senior Application and Networks Performance Engineer

    Jul 2012 - Nov 2014
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  Elitech

  Jan 2018 - now

  Co-Founder, Performance Specialist

  Digital Performance Management (Application, Network, Infrastructure and EUE)