Hi, I'm
Dhineshbabu Muthuraj
Sr. Software Development Engineer (Performance)
@ Workday
Performance Engineer with 15+ years of experience in Performance and Resiliency engineering for leading industries and product companies. Expert in performance engineering, architecture discussions, performance testing, SRE, and observability tools. Actively working on integration of AI tools and Agents for automation of performance bottleneck identification.
About Me
Performance Engineer with 15+ years of experience in Performance and Resiliency engineering for leading industries and product companies. Expert in performance engineering, architecture discussions, performance testing, SRE, and observability tools. Actively working on integration of AI tools and Agents for automation of performance bottleneck identification.
With deep expertise across the full performance engineering lifecycle — from benchmarking and load testing to production observability and SRE practices — I help engineering teams build faster, more resilient systems at scale. Currently at Workday, I focus on enterprise-grade performance for large-scale cloud applications.
Skills & Tools
Technologies I work with across the performance engineering stack
AI & Automation
Programming Languages
Observability & Monitoring
Cloud Platforms
CI/CD
UI Performance
Database
Performance Testing
Work Highlights
Key projects and contributions across my career
AI-Powered Bottleneck Detection
Integrating AI tools and agents to automate performance bottleneck identification and outage root cause analysis using logs, dashboards, and metrics.
Data Analysis with Jupyter
Developed Jupyter notebooks for performance data analysis and pattern identification with resiliency guardrails for enterprise applications.
Google Lighthouse Monitoring
Developed a Node.js codebase for automated Google Lighthouse UI performance monitoring integrated with QA/UAT CI/CD pipelines.
Architecture Design Decisions
Key contributor to product architecture decision-making that impacts global customers — evaluating performance trade-offs, scalability strategies, and infrastructure choices across enterprise systems.
Software Benchmarking & Capacity Planning
Conducted comprehensive software benchmarking across CPU architectures, cloud instance types, and infrastructure configurations to support data-driven capacity planning decisions.
Database Performance Engineering
Deep Oracle AWR analysis, query tuning, and cloud RDS monitoring with Performance Insights to identify and resolve database bottlenecks across enterprise-scale applications.
Cloud Platform Performance & Monitoring
Set up end-to-end observability, performance assessment, and test bench automation on AWS — covering CloudWatch, X-Ray, and automated performance pipelines for enterprise cloud workloads.
AWS CI/CD Workshop
Primary contributor for an external CI/CD workshop hosted by AWS, demonstrating best practices with Docker and Python.
Experience
15+ years of performance engineering excellence
Workday, Inc.
CurrentSr. Software Development Engineer (Performance)
Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp.
Software Performance Engineer → Senior Project Manager
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.
Software Performance Engineer → Senior Project Manager
Certifications
Professional certifications across cloud and security domains
AWS
Solutions Architect Associate
AWS
Developer Associate
AWS
Cloud Practitioner
AWS
AI Practitioner Foundational
Google Cloud
Associate Cloud Engineer
Microsoft Azure
AI Fundamentals
Microsoft Azure
Data Fundamentals
Microsoft Azure
Azure Fundamentals
LPI
Linux Professional Certified
EC-Council
Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
Neotys
Neotys Certified Professional
Oracle
Oracle Foundations Associate
Let's Connect
Open to performance engineering discussions, consulting engagements, and collaboration opportunities. Feel free to reach out!
kanudhinesh@gmail.com