About

Mithun Karanth is a Lead Software Engineer at Informatica with over 9 years of experience in software performance testing and analysis. He has a strong understanding of non-functional requirements and works closely with the business analysis team to provide necessary feedback. Mithun is skilled in building performance test scripts and scenarios using tools such as MicroFocus LoadRunner and Apache Jmeter. He also designs work load models and performance test scenarios in ALM Performance Centre as per the test strategy to test performance requirements. Mithun has good hands-on experience working with web HTTP/HTML, web services (SOAP and REST), and RDP protocols. He is proficient in using web debugging tool Fiddler and network troubleshooting tool Wireshark. He has trained and worked on Agile environments and has experience in sprint-level testing. Mithun has also worked with AppDynamics, Splunk, and Perfmon tools for effective performance analysis. In his current role at Informatica, Mithun is responsible for mentoring junior engineers on technical, architectural, design, and related issues. He has strong experience in performance engineering, performance bottleneck analysis, profiling, tuning, and tracing. Mithun is also knowledgeable in configuring and customizing Grafana monitoring dashboards with Prometheus DB and has experience in UI performance engineering. Prior to his current role, Mithun worked as a Senior Performance Engineer at Informatica, where he worked on the Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC) world-class catalog product hosted on a Hadoop environment. He also worked as a Performance Test Analyst at IBS Software, where he worked on the Airline Reservation System. Mithun holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from BMS and has completed SSLC and PUC from Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board and Alva's College of Education, respectively. His tech stack includes test, software engineering, Hadoop, web, UI, Spark, Java, MongoDB, Python, and product management.