About

Rakesh Reddy Ponnala is a Lead Member Of Technical Staff at Salesforce, with over 16 years of experience in performance testing and engineering. He has a strong technical background and is proficient in performance testing, monitoring, engineering, and providing technical assistance for performance testing RFPs and pre-sales efforts. Rakesh has extensive experience in performance test planning and executing complete end-to-end performance test projects. He has also set up performance test practice and PCoEs. Rakesh's technical specialties include performance testing using Jmeter, WebLoad, HP Load runner, Silk Performer, Storm Runner Load, Blazemeter, and Facilita Forecast. He has expertise in performance monitoring of Windows, Linux, Unix operating systems, JVM monitoring, and New Relic. He is also proficient in Perl and shell scripting. Prior to joining Salesforce, Rakesh worked as a Senior Member Of Technical Staff at Salesforce and an Associate Architect- Performance Engineering at Innominds. He has a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from JNTU and the Royal College of Engineering. Rakesh's tech stack includes software engineering, Salesforce, test, New Relic, and senior software engineering. With 17.02 years of relevant experience, Rakesh is a highly skilled and experienced professional in the field of performance testing and engineering.