Sameer Kanguri

About Sameer Kanguri

Delivering Tomorrow\'s Performance Today - Ensuring high availability and durability of applications.With over 19 years of experience in Software Engineering & Quality Assurance, I am a highly motivated IT Professional. My expertise spans a variety of technologies including Performance Testing, Performance Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Observability, Chaos Engineering, Automation Testing, Cloud computing (AWS, Azure, GCP)My passion for software technologies is what drives me to successfully deliver projects to prestigious clients across the globe. Over the years, I have had an impressive growth story and won recognition and appreciation for the positions I have held.In addition to my technical skills, I possess strong analytical, leadership, client-handling, communication, and interpersonal skills. I believe in staying current with industry updates and adapting to new technologies to stay ahead of the curve. As a self-starter, I have a zeal for work and strive to become an asset to any organization I work with.My primary focus is on ensuring the high availability and resiliency of applications to deliver tomorrow\'s performance today.Key Responsibilities:System Monitoring: Implement and maintain monitoring solutions to track system performance, troubleshoot issues, and ensure uptime.Incident Management: Respond to and resolve incidents, including on-call duties, and conduct post-incident reviews to prevent recurrence.Capacity Planning: Analyze system usage and trends to optimize resource allocation and prevent performance bottlenecks.Automation: Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools for provisioning, deployment, and scaling of services.Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Manage infrastructure using IaC principles to ensure consistency and repeatability.Performance Optimization: Identify and address performance bottlenecks and continuously optimize systems for efficiency.Security: Implement and enforce security best practices for system and application security.Resilience: Build redundancy and failover solutions to ensure system availability and disaster recovery.Collaboration: Collaborate with development teams to design and implement applications for reliability and scalability.Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation for system configurations, processes, and procedures.Capacity Planning: Plan for future growth and scale systems as needed.

Experience

1. Sr Performance Architect Sre Architect

   Driscoll's

   Apr 2025 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   ResponsibilitiesDesign, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, and resilient cloud infrastructure.Lead performance testing & performance engineering for web, API, and mobile apps using JMeter tool.Led observability efforts using Dynatrace & AWS CloudWatch; built automated dashboards/alertsImproved reliability via chaos engineering, CI/CD pipelines, and real-time monitoringProvided Production support, reduced MTTR by 35%, enhanced incident management protocolsOptimize Kubernetes clusters for performance and cost-efficiency.Develop and manage monitoring, alerting, and logging systems using tools such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, AlertManager, and Grafana.Integrate performance scripts into CI/CD pipelines (AWS DevOps).Troubleshoot complex technical issues across the entire software stack.Collaborate with development teams to ensure smooth deployment and operation of new applications and services.Automate routine tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reliability.Stay up to date with emerging technologies and best practices in cloud computing and SRE.

Education

• Gogte Institute of Technology, Belagavi

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E)