Senior Performance Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Alex Podelko supported major performance initiatives for Amazon, MongoDB, Oracle, Hyperion, Aetna, and Intel in different roles including performance tester, performance analyst, performance architect, and performance engineer. Currently he is Senior Performance Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS), responsible for performance testing and optimization of Aurora service. Before specializing in performance, Alex led software development for Rodnik Software. Having more than thirty years of overall experience in the software industry, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from Gubkin University and an MBA from Bellevue University. Alex speaks and writes about performance engineering and load testing. See his collection of performance-related links and documents at www.alexanderpodelko.com. Specialties: Performance, Performance Engineering, Load Testing, Performance Testing, Capacity Planning, Performance Management, Performance Analysis, Modeling, Monitoring, Optimization, Tuning, Application Performance Management/Monitoring (APM), Cloud, AWS, Continuous Integration, LoadRunner, Oracle Application Testing Suite, JMeter, HyPerformix, TeamQuest, Jenkins, J2EE, Weblogic, WebSphere, Java, C/C++, Python, Windows, Linux, UNIX, MongoDB, Hyperion, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Business Intelligence (BI), git.