Rahul Parikh

About Rahul Parikh

Leading SRE practice for Trading at BlackRock with over 13 years of experience in performance engineering and site reliability.Proven expertise in building and leading performance engineering and monitoring practices for complex, large-scale financial systems.Highly skilled in JVM tuning, low-latency GC optimization, and memory consumption reduction.Proficient with monitoring and observability tools such as CA APM, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, MQMon, and more.Strong background in analyzing heap dumps, thread dumps, and AWR reports to diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks (Tools – AppDynamics, IRIS, AWR).Extensive experience in database monitoring, server log analysis (Splunk, Graylog), and automation of business and monitoring workflows using Java/Python.Experienced in incident management—leading root cause analysis, driving post-incident reviews, and implementing preventive measures to ensure system stability.Proficient in capacity management, including forecasting, resource optimization, and scaling strategies to meet trading platform demands.Deeply experienced in embedding performance engineering into DevOps CI/CD lifecycles and adopting a shift-left approach to catch performance issues early in development.

Experience

1. Senior Vice President - Site Reliability Engineer

   BlackRock

   Jun 2022 — Present · New York, NY, US

Education

• Sardar Patel University

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology

  2007 — 2011

• University of California, Santa Cruz

  Certification, Devops Technologies

Skills

• Test Strategy
• Load Testing
• Image Editing
• Stress Testing
• Wily Introscope
• C++
• C#
• Performance Testing Tools
• Dynatrace
• Php
• Hp Quality Center
• Load Balancing
• Jmeter
• Sql
• Requirements Gathering
• Performance Testing
• Testing
• Test Planning
• Bug Tracking
• Requirements Analysis
• Java
• Loadrunner
• Test Cases
• Visual Basic
• Solarwinds
• C