Simon Stratton

Sr Principle Software Engineer, Cloud Performance @Alteryx

Cardiff, GB

Skills: AWS, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Prometheus, New Relic, Datadog, Grafana, k6, InfluxDB, OpenTelemetry.Languages: TypeScriptFull-time employee responsible for the performance engineering of Alteryx Cloud Platform. I create Performance Test frameworks using k6 and Locust load test tools and design and maintain the performance Test Strategy. During my time on this project I have injected performance code benchmarking and trend analysis into the CI/CD pipelines of kubernetes services and created a ArgoCD post-deploy job that ran load tests on individual services after they were deployed to our development environment. I tuned the Kubernetes configuration of the production environment for optimum cost and performance. I diagnosed and triaged memory leaks in TypeScript, C# and C++ languages and triaged customer performance issues on production. I managed our performance test environments, which were used for end to end load, soak and stress testing. I set up frontend performance testing frameworks using Lighthouse and Chrome development tools. I set up the observability monitoring and dashboards for our test and production environments.