Chandra Sekhar Thatavarthy
Chicago
Summary
Performance and chaos engineering architect with extensive experience in a leading U.S. beverage chain, specializing in site reliability engineering (SRE) and performance optimization. Expertise in capacity planning and stakeholder management has led to significant improvements in system reliability and operational efficiency. Highly skilled in automation, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure management, contributing to seamless operations. Proven problem-solving and collaboration abilities ensure robust system reliability across all platforms.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
SRE - Performance & Chaos Engineering Architect
Leading U.S. Beverage & Retail Chain
Chicago
05.2025 - Current
- Led design and implementation of resilient, scalable systems for mission-critical operations.
- Managed team of over 10 in site reliability engineering to enhance performance and reliability.
- Architected performance and chaos engineering frameworks to elevate system availability and observability.
- Implemented automation tools to increase efficiency in deployment processes.
- Executed workload modeling, capacity planning, and large-scale testing to meet global traffic demands.
- Collaborated with engineering, product, and operations teams to align goals with customer expectations.
- Troubleshot complex issues related to application architecture and system configurations.
- Drove continuous improvement by defining SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs while fostering a reliability-focused culture.
Performance & Chaos Engineering Leader
Capgemini
Chicago
11.2015 - Current
- NFT Team Size: 300+
- Mentored junior engineers to enhance professional development and skills.
- Serve as Board Certification Lead for the NFT Sub‑Practice, overseeing certification strategy, standards, and advancement of practitioner competencies across the organization.
- Build strategies to manage Complex cross functional projects and Transformation initiatives across the client organizations to enable Site Reliability Engineering, Performance Engineering & Chaos Engineering to meet Business and Technology Goals.
- Direct strategic sales, formulating market strategy and governance for the organization's Performance Engineering structure.
- Build and maintain alliances and partnerships in the region to enable the identification of joint business opportunities with partner organizations to implement services to best meet the needs of the alliance.
- Lead high‑performing Application & Platform Engineering teams responsible for developing performance test scripts and APIs supporting multiple Capgemini business units across the NA region; drive implementation of next‑generation architecture frameworks leveraging advanced Cloud and AI technologies.
- Advise customers and business partners, Performance Engineering of large complex systems from Strategy, Architecture, Design, Benchmark, Technology Evaluation, Tooling perspectives.
- Design workload models based on volume forecasting and user behavior models using the UCML framework.
- Customization and implementation of NFTHub for projects (Capgemini Framework for Performance Testing & Engineering).
- Work collaboratively and build relationships across clients and Capgemini executives to enable business value generation.
- Define process and tools, manage the resolution of client’s critical issues by developing a success-driven plan and leading a cross-functional and high skilled team, spanning pre-sales, delivery and support.
- Drive client executive escalation communications and visibility on each escalation to client and Capgemini executive and develop practices for early indications and engagement to avoid large risky escalations.
- Lead the career development framework and setting performance objectives for individuals, and assist them with career assessment based on performance reviews, training recommendations, salary evaluations and compensations.
- Identify need for initial or supplemental project resources, recruit high skilled Quality/Performance Engineering managers/leads.
- Oversee the establishment/execution of Performance Engineering Community of Practice (CoP) competency and responsible for driving the identification and application of key technologies and continuous improvement on Performance Chaos Engineering using a unique blend of leadership, critical thinking, implementation skills and industry leading experience.
- Identify new business /growth opportunities within existing and new engagements.
- Actively lead new sales RFPs, interact with Sales Account executives to draft the proposals, provide estimates, prepare staffing plans and Create Effort models taking into consideration of Contribution margins.
- Manage the development and enhancement of Performance & Chaos Engineering frameworks supporting Products & Services UI & API's using Loadrunner, Jmeter, Maven, Jenkins, AWS API Gateway, SonarQube and JIRA Reporting.
- Mentor the Performance Engineering Community within Capgemini by conducting training sessions, brown bag sessions, and helping to resolve complex technical problems.
Performance Engineering Architect
US based Aerospace Engineering Company
Miami
02.2023 - 04.2025
- Executed comprehensive performance testing and engineering strategies to validate Boeing SAP cloud migration.
- Developed quality gates, KPIs, and metrics for effective monitoring of migration initiatives.
- Utilized Solution Manager to accurately model business requirements for SAP applications.
- Created workload models reflecting NFRs, expected volumes, user forecasts, and behavioral patterns.
Education
Post Graduate Program - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Texas McCombs School of Business
03.2026
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) - Computer Science & Engineering
Gulbarga University
Gulbarga, Karnataka, India03.2000
Skills
- Management and Leadership Skills
- Project Management
- Strategic Planning
- Budgeting
- Technology Transformation
- Demand Management
- Resource Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Performance & Site Reliability Engineering
- Performance Testing
- Microfocus Performance Center
- Loadrunner
- RPT
- OrthoPerf
- Load Modelling & Simulation
- Profiling
- AppDynamics
- Newrelic
- Grafana
- Datadog
- Splunk
- Extrahop
- IAF
- Websphere
- Welogic server
- Sitescope
- Willey
- IBM Heap/GC analyzer
- Visual VM
- Chaos Engineering
- Gremlin
- Dynatrace
- AWR report analysis
- SAP T Codes
- Application profiling
- Bottleneck analysis
- Capacity planning
- Blazemeter
- JMeter
- RPT Monitoring
- Http Watch
- AWS Lambda
- AWS CloudWatch
- AWS Auto Scaling
- Kinesis
- Redis
- API Gateway
- Azure Appinsights
- Microservices on AWS Cloud
- AKS
- Microservices based Architecture
- Java
- SAP
- BI/DW
- Python
- Performance tuning
- Numpy
- Pandas
- EDA
- C
- Jenkins
- SonarQube
- Github
- AWS Aurora Db
- Dynamo Db
- Cassandra
- Oracle 18c
- DB2
- SQL Server
- Db tuning
- Postgres SQL
- LLM Models
- Machine learning
Certification
• SRE Practitioner Training
• Connected Manager – A Capgemini & Harvard Manage Mentor Program
• Software Architecture Professional Certificate – Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
• Level 1 Certified Architect - NA Architect Community, Capgemini Global Certification Board
• Gremlin Certified Chaos Engineering Professional
• Being a Lead Architect in Capgemini – Capgemini University
• Connected Manager – A Capgemini & Harvard Manage Mentor Program
• Software Architecture Professional Certificate – Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
• Level 1 Certified Architect - NA Architect Community, Capgemini Global Certification Board
• Gremlin Certified Chaos Engineering Professional
• Being a Lead Architect in Capgemini – Capgemini University
Publications
A strategic approach to Performance Testing
Timeline
SRE - Performance & Chaos Engineering Architect
Leading U.S. Beverage & Retail Chain
05.2025 - Current
Performance Engineering Architect
US based Aerospace Engineering Company
02.2023 - 04.2025
Performance & Chaos Engineering Leader
Capgemini
11.2015 - Current
Post Graduate Program - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Texas McCombs School of Business
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) - Computer Science & Engineering
Gulbarga University