Georges – 415-516-9103 – georges6833@gmail.com - US Citizen

 

Here is some personal fact about me:  I am very fond of end-to-end performance/scalability engineering and love working day and night in this field. It is not only work for me but also my hobby and I am penchant for improving end-to-end performance/scalability/capacity-planning for all kinds of demanding applications serving billions of request, users, and petabytes of data.

 

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

·   26+ years of experience successfully hands-on leading End-To-End Performance, Scalability, Reliability Engineering and Software development for highly scalable online applications serving billions of requests, users, petabytes of data including online Wall street Equity Trading exchange solutions, online Banking/Finance/Lending, online Ecommerce solutions, online CRM, online Content Management/Search, Very Large petabytes size real time Data Systems, Big Data, and Continuous Integration solutions for on-premise, CLOUD, and Mobile platforms

·   Hands-on Lead the development of Performance testing automation frameworks, Performance models, Performance/Scalability benchmarks, and capacity planning/sizing for Applications, Web servers, Application Servers, Database Servers, Network and Storage

·   Develop tools to execute capacity planning tests, monitoring, analysis and reporting

·   Design and Implement Highly Scalable and Highly Available end-to-end solutions

·   Hands-on Lead the design and implementation of large scale, highly scalable and highly available customer-facing web applications for on-premise and CLOUD platforms

·   Lead the performance tuning/optimization of application UI, business logic, ORM layer, data layer, SOA based integration layer, database, OS/Kernel, Servers, network and storage

·   Hire, and Lead the onshore/offshore team

·   Hands-on Lead the Design and Implementation of frameworks for performance testing, benchmarking, monitoring, profiling and tuning optimizations

·   Performance Test, Tune and optimize the application code including JAVA stack, REST WebServices, Python, Scala, Groovy, HTML, JavaScript, C++, C, PHP, Perl, Ruby, SQL, and PLSQL code

·   Performance Tune and optimize the web servers(Apache, IHS), application servers (Weblogic, Websphere, JBoss, Tomcat), database (Oracle, MySQL, MSSQL, DB2), Non-SQL (Cassandra, Mongo, Hadoop) and OS/ Kernel (Unix, Linux, Windows)

·   Hands-on Lead the implementation of performance monitoring tools/frameworks

·   Hands-on Lead the implementation of multi-threading code, distributed caches, clustering solutions to improve the performance/scalability, response times and transactions throughput

·   Hands-on Lead the Implementation of tools and best practices for continuously improving the quality of products, build and deployment automation, and release management

·   Provide leadership and expertise in the development of new products, services, processes, frequently operating at the leading edge of technology

·   Lead the design of Enterprise Architecture including Application architecture, Web tier architecture, SOA based Integration architecture, Data/Database architecture, and Infrastructure Architecture

·   Lead large and complex SDLC/projects using AGILE/SCRUM methods

·   Create the blueprints for As-Is and To-Be Enterprise solution and systems architecture

·   Lead the implementation of production performance SLA monitoring solutions

·   Create/Own the Enterprise technology Roadmap and provided leadership in driving and releasing high quality software products on-schedule and within budget

·   Lead daily activities such as coordination, coaching, planning, delivery, quality, performance metrics, operations, and service level agreements (SLA)

·   Created Business proposals, SOWs with estimates, RFI/RFP

·   Lead the design, development, and execution of industry standard benchmarks SPEC benchmark (SPECcpu, SPECweb, SPECjbb etc.), TPC-x (TPC-C, TPC-D, TPC-E, TPC-H etc.), Desktop benchmarks (SYSmark, MobileMark, 3DMark etc.)

 

 

WORK HISTORY  

 

ELECTRIC-CLOUD CORP (Mar 2014 to Present) – Hands-on Chief Performance Architect/Engineer, Performance Lead

·   Lead the End-To-End Performance/Scalability Engineering of web based Electric-Cloud solutions serving billions of requests for on-premise, CLOUD, and Mobile platforms

·   Lead the development of Performance models, Performance Benchmarking, and publish capacity planning/sizing for Electric-Cloud Applications, Web servers, Application Servers, Database Servers, Network and Storage

·   Lead the design and implementation of highly scalable, and highly available customer-facing web applications for on-premise and SAAS/CLOUD platforms

·   Develop tools to execute capacity planning tests, monitoring, analysis and reporting

·   Lead the implementation of multi-threading code, distributed caches, clustering solutions to improve the performance/scalability, response times and transactions throughput

·   Develop the automation of Performance/Scalability/Load/Stress testing

·   Lead the onshore/offshore team

·   Perform tuning of JAVA stack, REST WebServices, Python, PHP, Perl, Scala, Groovy, Ruby and SQL profiling, tuning, and code fixing 

·   Lead the implementation of performance monitoring tools/frameworks

·   Lead the performance tuning/optimization of application UI, business logic, ORM layer, data layer, SOA based integration layer, database, OS/ Kernel, Servers, network and storage

·   Configure, Tune and optimize the Electric-flow application code including JAVA Stack, Python, Groovy, Perl and SQL code

·   Configure, Tune and optimize the web servers, application servers, database, OS/ Kernel, and hardware

·   Configure the load balancers and Clustering software

·   Lead the Design and Implementation of frameworks for performance/scalability testing, debugging and optimizations

·   Create, Implement, and Publish Benchmark Report for internal consumption, and for external consumption including customers and agencies like Gartner & Forrester

 

 

CORELOGIC CORP (Jun 2010 to Mar 2014) – Hands-on Performance Engineering Lead

·   Lead the End-To-End Performance/Scalability Engineering of web based online Banking/Finance/Lending/Ecommerce solutions serving billions of requests hosted in CLOUD, and Very Large Petabyte Size Data System and Big Data solutions for on-premise, CLOUD, and Mobile platforms

·   Lead, and mentor the onshore/offshore staff

·   Lead the development of Performance models, Performance Benchmarking, and publish capacity planning/sizing for Applications, Web servers, Application Servers, Database Servers, Network and Storage

·   Develop tools to execute capacity planning tests, monitoring, analysis and reporting

·   Design and Implement Highly Scalable and Highly Available end-to-end solutions

·   Hands-on Lead the design and implementation of large scale, highly scalable and highly available customer-facing web applications for on-premise and CLOUD platforms

·   Tune and optimize the application code including JAVA stack, REST WebServices, Python, Perl and SQL code

·   Tune and optimize the web servers, application servers, database, and OS/ Kernel

·   Lead the implementation of multi-threading, distributed caches, clustering solutions to improve the response times and transactions throughput

·   Lead the Performance/Scalability testing automation, code profiling, tuning 

·   Lead the implementation of performance monitoring tools/frameworks

·   Lead the performance tuning/optimization of application UI, business logic, ORM layer, data layer, SOA based integration layer, database, OS/ Kernel, Servers, network and storage

·   Lead the Design and Implementation of frameworks for performance/scalability testing and optimizations

·   Lead the Software development using AGILE/SCRUM methodologies

·   Provide leadership and manage the distributed global teams, processes, tools, metrics, and methodologies

·   NTT Data

 

 

HITACHI CORP. (July 2008 to May 2010) – Hands-on Performance Engineering Lead

·   Lead the End-To-End Performance/Scalability Engineering of online Equity Trading Exchange/Ecommerce solutions for on-premise and CLOUD platforms serving billions of requests and users

·   Hire, Lead and Mentor the staff

·   Lead the development and execution of Performance Benchmarks, performance optimization tools and frameworks and publish the Capacity Planning/Sizing guidelines for Applications, Web servers, Application Servers, Database Servers, Network and Storage

·   Develop tools to execute capacity planning tests, monitoring, analysis and reporting

·   Design and Implement Highly Scalable and Highly Available end-to-end solutions for on-premise and CLOUD platforms

·   Tune and optimize the application code including JAVA stack, C++, html, Python, PHP, Perl, JavaScript, and SQL code

·   Tune and optimize the web servers, application servers, database, and OS/ Kernel

·   Lead the performance tuning/optimization of application UI, workflows, ORM layer, data layer, SOA based integration layer, database, OS/ Kernel, Servers, network and storage

·   Lead the implementation of global and local caches, clustering solutions to improve the response times and transactions throughput

·   Lead the implementation of Performance/Scalability testing automation, code profiling and tuning tools and best practices

·   Track and Report on the quality metrics, milestones, and deliverables

·   Ensure successful, high quality and timely implementations are done using AGILE/SCRUM methodologies

·   Lead the Implementation of tools and best practices to continuously improve the product quality, build automation and release management

·   Lead the design of Enterprise Architecture including Application architecture, Web tier architecture, SOA based Middleware and Integration architecture, Data Model, Database architecture, and end-to-end Infrastructure Architecture

·   Create/Drive the performance engineering Roadmap

 

 

 

ORACLE CORP. (May 2005 to June 2008) – Hands-on Chief Performance Architect/Engineer

·   Lead the End-To-End Performance/Scalability Engineering of web based online multi-tenant CRM/Content Management/Search hosted in CLOUD/SAAS serving billion of request and users, and very large Petabyte size real time Data Systems

·   Lead, Hire and Coach the onshore/offshore teams

·   Design and Implement Highly Scalable and Highly Available end-to-end solutions

·   Develop tools to execute capacity planning tests, monitoring, analysis and reporting

·   Lead the implementation of Performance/Scalability Benchmarks and publish Capacity planning guidelines for Web applications, Web servers, Application Servers, Database Servers, Network and Storage

·   Tune and optimize the application code including JAVA stack, html, javascript, SQL, and PLSQL code

·   Tune and optimize the web servers, application servers, database, and OS/ Kernel

·   Lead the Design and Implementation of frameworks for Performance/Scalability testing, code profiling and optimizations

·   Lead the performance tuning/optimization of application UI, business logic, workflows, data layer, SOA based integration layer, database, OS/ Kernel, Servers, network and storage

·   Lead the implementation of performance monitoring tools/frameworks

·   Lead the implementation of multi-threading, global  and local caches, clustering solutions to improve the response times and transactions throughput

·   Lead the application development using AGILE/SCRUM/XP methodologies

·   Lead the distributed global teams, processes, tools, metrics, and methodologies

·   Lead the release of high quality applications on-schedule and within budget

·   Create/Manage the Project plan

·   Create the blueprints for As-Is and To-Be Enterprise architecture

 

 

MARKETTOOLS (Oct 1999 to May 2005) – Principal Performance/Scalability Architect/Engineer

·   Lead the End-To-End Performance Engineering of online CRM, and online market survey application serving tens of millions of users and billions of requests hosted in CLOUD

·   Lead the onshore/offshore team

·   Lead the Performance/Scalability testing, Performance Scalability benchmarks, Capacity Planning/Sizing guidelines, JAVA application code profiling, JAVA tuning, SQL tuning and performance optimization for response times and throughput

·   Tune and optimize the application code including JAVA stack, C++, and SQL code

·   Tune and optimize the web servers, application servers, database, and OS/ Kernel

·   Lead  the performance tuning/optimization of application UI, business logic, workflows, ORM layer, data layer, SOA based integration layer, and database

·   Lead the implementation of caches and clustering to improve the performance, scalability and high availability

·   Lead the design and implementation of very large Multi-Terabyte database

·   Lead the project using Agile/Scrum methodologies

·   Create Project Plan, and release Plan

 

 

ORACLE CORP. (Dec 1989 to Sep 1999) – Software Engineer/Technical Lead

·   Design and Implement the Database Server Performance/Scalability Benchmarks/Capacity Planning and publish the Benchmark results and the Sizing guidelines for scaling the application to 128 node loosely coupled commodity hardware Clusters, 64 node Sun SMP machine, and Massively parallel Pyramid super computer

·   Design, Development of Database Server solutions

·   Develop the business logic,  integration, and data layer code

·   Profile and Tune the code including C, C++, Java, SQL, PLSQL, Assembly code

·   Tune and optimize the web servers, application servers, database, and OS/Kernel

·   Execute the Functional/Performance/Load Testing/Capacity Planning

·   Convert business requirements into the technical design

·   Create the TDD, software and system Architecture documents

·   Develop coding, performance testing, and tuning guidelines

·   Develop the application development and QA framework

·   Create logical and physical solution architectures

·   Design and Implement very large multi-Terabyte database

·   Publish papers on Performance tuning and Capacity planning

 

 

EDUCATION/AWARDS/TRAININGS

·   B.S. Computer Science – MS University, Dec 1989

·   Certified End-to-End Performance Architect

·   Certified JAVA/J2EE Architect, Certified Database Architect

·   Cloud Platform Architect, Big Data Architect

·   Certified Enterprise Architect

·   AGILE-SCRUM Master, PMP, Enterprise Architecture frameworks

·   Published Papers on Performance tuning and capacity planning in user conferences

 

SOME OF THE FAMILIAR TOOLS/TECHNOLOGIES
Cloud Computing: Amazon(AWS), CloudStack, OpenStack, Eucalyptus, Azure, Enstratus, Heroku Performance/QA Tools: HP QC, LoadRunner, Gatling, Jmeter, Selenium, WinRunner, TestDirector, Rational, Silk Performer, QTP, Maven, HTTPWatch, STAF, Jiffy, Boomerang, Fiddler, Firebug, YSlow, Spirent Avalanche, OS/ Kernel tools (top, iostat, sar, vmstat, netstat), WireShark, TCPdump, iometer Dev tools, Code profilers, Code tuning, IDE: Yourkit, Eclipse, Jprobe, Optimizeit, JProfiler, Jdeveloper, Jbuilder, ANT, Perforce, Clearcase, VSS, Sonar, Hudson, Cruise Control, Camel, OS/ Kernel tools AppServers, WebServers, LB, SOA/EAI: WebLogic, Oracle Fusion middleware(BPEL/ESB), Websphere/SOA/ESB/MQ, JBOSS, Tomcat, Apache, DataPower, BizTalk, IIS, zookeeper, haproxy, F5 Software Languages, Packages and Scripting: JAVA, J2EE, JSF, AJAX, JavaScript, JMS, EJB, MQ, XML, SOAP, XSL, PHP, Perl, C, ksh, bsh, SQL, PL/SQL, Python, Flex, C#, .NET, C++, ASP, Action Script, Groovy, Scala Database/SQL Development/Performance tuning tools: Toad, Oracle SQL Developer, Erwin Hardware Platforms/OS/Kernel: Dell Windows/Linux, HP Unix/Linux, IBM AIX/Linux,  Sun Solaris, Exadata Portal Servers: Weblogic Portal, SharePoint, Websphere Portal, Joomla Security, Networking, Cryptography: PKI, Cryptography, SSL, IRM, Firewalls LDAP Servers: Active Directory, Oracle OID/OVD, SunOne	Databases (RDBMS and BIG DATA): Oracle 12/11g/10g, Oracle RAC, MySQL/Percona, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Cassandra, MongoDB, Amazon SimpleDB, Hadoopdb System Monitoring/Management: AppDynamics, New Relic, keynote, Foglight, BMC, Sitescope, Wily Introscope, Dynatrace, Oracle OEM, Graphite, StatsD, Perfmon, Nmon, Nagios, Zenoss Other tools/Frameworks: Spring, Struts, JSF, ADF, Hibernate, Ruby on Rails, REST, iBatis, Web 2.0, Hadoop, Hive, Apple iOS, Google Android, Velocity, MemCached, Oracle Coherence, Oracle TimesTen, EhCache, Terracotta, strace, tshark, git, Nginx, node.js, backone.js, Gigaspaces, Gemfire Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deploy: Electric-Flow, Electric-Accelerator, Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, Docker, Vagrant Project Management: Version One, MS Project, Primavera Prosight, Rally, JIRA, Greenhopper Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing, BIG DATA: Informatica, Cognos, OBIEE, Microsoft Analytics, GoldenGate, Pentaho, Vertica ERP, CRM, HRMS: Oracle EBS, SalesForce, SAP, Siebel, Peoplesoft Enterprise Access Control/Identity Mgmt/SSO: SiteMinder, Sun SAM/IDM, RSA, Oracle IDM Business Process Analysis/Modeling/Enterprise Architecture: iGraphx, Oracle BPM Suite, SparX EA, Lombardi Ecommerce: Oracle, IBM/Websphere, Sterling, ATG Microsoft office tools: Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, Word