Kedar Kulkarni Email & Phone Number

I am a dedicated professional with more than 17 years' experience in performance engineering, observability and technical consulting roles. I am passionate about embedding performance and other non-functional aspects into development life cycles. Currently working as a Regional Practice Director for Performance Engineering at Planit, I am managing the local performance engineering practice and responsible for delivery across multiple customer engagements, technical pre-sales and developing customised solutions and people management. Previously I have worked at Elastic as a Consultant helping customers with their search and observability requirements and achieving the full potential of their elastic stack and solutions. Some key strengths and experience include * Exposure to various industries including banking, retail, insurance, tolling, racing and wagering, oil and gas and mining * Experience of working in Digital transformation programs using Scaled Agile frameworks* Implementation of frameworks using cloud technologies to orchestrate performance tests and integrate with CI/CD pipelines* Expertise in deploying Observability and APM tools such as Dynatrace, New Relic and Elastic APM across complex hybrid cloud architectures. * Exposure to site reliability concepts and implementation of visualisation tools to capture business, operational and performance metrics across the application life-cycle* Strong technical skills with excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills* Experience of managing large teams and programs of work

Listed skills include Performance Testing, Loadrunner, Test Management, Performance Engineering, and 24 others.