About

Ramkumar K is a highly skilled Principal Engineer with over 12 years of experience in the IT industry, specializing in software development, test automation, scale, and performance testing. He has a proven track record of building cloud products, with 8+ years of experience in this area. Ramkumar has extensive experience in developing cloud applications using open source technologies such as HAProxy, Nginx, Kafka, ActiveMQ, Redis, and Mongo. As a Test Architect, Ramkumar has developed test strategies for major programs in large organizations and has extensive knowledge and experience in building test frameworks for cloud-based products. He is an expert in performance test tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, and Performance Center and has built JMeter plugins to support custom requirements such as emailable reports and protobuf assertion. Additionally, Ramkumar has built a framework to capture and mock any SaaS application and a proxy to capture HTTP traffic on a component under test. Ramkumar has been responsible for the scale and performance of over 100 microservices and has developed a common dashboard to monitor the health of all microservices for every CI build. He has extensive knowledge of the Shunra Virtual Emulator Suite for network modeling and profiling to identify the bandwidth and latency impact on user experience and application scaling. Ramkumar also has in-depth experience in integrating performance testing in the continuous integration system (Jenkins). With hands-on experience in databases such as MySQL Server, MariaDB, Redis, Oracle, and Mongo, Ramkumar is also knowledgeable in middlewares such as ActiveMQ, Tibco, and Kafka. He has worked with various management protocols like telnet, ssh, SOAP, REST, and file transfer protocols like SFTP and FTP. Ramkumar has the ability to interact with developers and product analysts regarding testing status. Ramkumar holds a Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.) from Anna University and a Bachelor of Computer Application from Madurai Kamaraj University. He is proficient in a wide range of tech stacks, including Redis, MongoDB, Kafka, Microservices, Android, Software Engineer, CI/CD, SDET, Kubernetes, Docker, MySQL, Jenkins, Integration, and Senior Software Engineer. With a relevant experience of 13.78 years, Ramkumar is currently working as a Principal Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, having previously held positions at Netskope as a Staff Engineer and Member of Technical Staff.