Senior Performance Engineer // Calgary, AB

Sandeep K
Bondugula

Distributed Systems · APM & Observability · CIAM & IAM Platforms
AWS Certified · Gremlin Enterprise · Apache JMeter Pro · Google AI

Dynatrace 7yr AppDynamics 8yr Splunk 7yr JMeter 10yr+ AWS Certified Gremlin Certified
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Sandeep K Bondugula
> stop chasing my tail -f
13+Years Exp.
40%Latency Cut
$2M+Revenue Saved
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About

Senior Performance Engineer with 13+ years investigating, identifying, and remediating performance bottlenecks across distributed cloud-native systems, APIs, and identity-adjacent platform infrastructure.

Deep hands-on expertise in the APM tooling that production teams actually rely on — Dynatrace (7yr), AppDynamics (8yr), and Splunk (7yr) — applied at production scale to systems processing millions of daily transactions.

Expert at designing and executing performance experiments to validate improvements in RPS, p95/p99 latency, query performance, CPU/memory utilisation, and cost efficiency across regulated financial environments.

Direct experience validating IAM and authentication system performance under load — testing authentication boundary enforcement, API gateway security posture, and session management behaviour under enterprise-scale concurrent loads.

Core Competencies
  • Distributed Systems Performance Analysis
  • API Performance & Bottleneck Identification
  • RPS / P95 / P99 Latency Experiments
  • IAM / Auth System Performance Testing
  • Chaos Engineering (Gremlin Certified)
  • SLO / SLI / Error Budget Frameworks
  • CI/CD-Integrated Performance Gates
  • Shift-Left Performance Culture
  • Telemetry Pipeline Design
  • Capacity Planning & Cost Efficiency
  • Technical Decision Writing & RFCs
  • Cross-Functional Performance Leadership
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Technology Stack

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Career

Senior Performance Engineer
Nov 2021 – Present
Bank of Montreal (BMO) — Toronto, ON
  • Performance lead across BMO's distributed Banking, Credit Card, CRA & Remittance platforms — millions of daily financial transactions, strict SLA/latency/reliability requirements.
  • Designed & executed experiments validating p95/p99 latency, RPS, CPU/memory, and DB query performance improvements across distributed API-first financial services.
  • Applied Dynatrace PurePath tracing, AppDynamics flow maps, and Splunk log correlation to pinpoint bottlenecks at code, JVM, middleware, database, and infrastructure layers.
  • Validated IAM-adjacent auth & access control performance under load — confirmed authentication boundary enforcement and session management maintained target latency at peak.
  • Drove shift-left performance culture: embedded in architecture reviews, defined NFRs before build, integrated automated performance gates into Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
  • Implemented Gremlin chaos engineering to validate degradation curves and recovery timing across distributed services.
  • Built Python automation tooling for experiment execution, telemetry ingestion, statistical analysis, and results reporting.
  • Reduced transaction latency 40% and prevented $2M+ in revenue loss through systematic distributed system performance work.
Senior Performance Engineer
Feb 2019 – Nov 2021
Randstad Technologies → Wells Fargo — Charlotte, NC
  • Investigated and remediated performance bottlenecks across distributed financial platform microservices on Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
  • Applied AppDynamics, Splunk, AWR, and SQL Profiler to diagnose CPU, memory, thread contention, and database query performance across PCF-hosted API services.
  • Designed controlled experiments measuring p90/p95/p99 latency, RPS, and resource utilisation improvements to validate target outcomes.
  • Partnered cross-functionally with dev, architecture, and quality teams to drive performance improvements into delivery pipelines.
Performance Engineer
Dec 2014 – Jan 2019
Compest Solutions — VA, CA, DE, NC, NY
  • Delivered distributed system performance investigation for enterprise clients including JP Morgan Chase, Capital One, M&T Bank, TIAA-CREF, and IHeartMedia.
  • Applied Dynatrace and AppDynamics to investigate API, database, and infrastructure bottlenecks across multi-tenant SaaS and Salesforce Apex platforms.
  • Designed workload experiments from business transaction analysis; validated performance improvements in latency, throughput, and resource utilisation.
Senior Associate — Performance Engineering
Dec 2010 – May 2013
Wipro Ltd — Hyderabad, India
  • Investigated application performance bottlenecks using Dynatrace and HP Diagnostics.
  • Analysed distributed transaction traces, JVM behaviour, and database performance to produce complete bottleneck analysis reports.
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Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
Feb 2025 – Feb 2028
Enterprise Chaos Engineering
Gremlin
Sep 2023 · ID: 81434878
Google AI Professional
Google
Apr 2026 · ID: MIWSNUIPK4J7
Apache JMeter Pro
BlazeMeter University
Jan 2021
GenAI Assisted Engineer
Virtusa
Apr 2025
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Education

Master of Science — Engineering / Industrial Management
St. Cloud State University · Minnesota, USA
Bachelor of Technology — Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University · Hyderabad, India

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