Alexander Podelko
Senior Performance Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Stamford, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Podelko is a Senior Performance Engineer at AWS with a 30+ year software career focused on performance testing, analysis, and optimization for large-scale systems. He has led and executed major performance initiatives for Amazon, MongoDB, Oracle, Hyperion, Aetna, and Intel, bringing deep expertise in load testing, capacity planning, monitoring, and tuning across cloud and on-prem environments. Previously he led software development at Rodnik Software and held senior performance roles at Oracle and MongoDB, now specializing in Aurora performance at AWS. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and an MBA, combining rigorous research skills with business-savvy decision making. Alex is a frequent speaker and curator of performance engineering resources (www.alexanderpodelko.com), reflecting a long-standing commitment to advancing the discipline beyond individual engagements.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, MBA at Bellevue UniversityPh.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas (former Moscow State Academy of Oil and Gas)
English, Russian
Github Skills (34)
mongoose10
nosql10
testing10
mongodb-database10
mongodb10
database10
javascript9
faunadb9
jmeter8
jmx8
benchmarking8
java8
nodejs7
performance-testing7
visualizer7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apodelko/web-performance-resources
Sep 2018 - Feb 2021
Up to date collection of valuable web performance resources
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 5 months
up-to-dateperformanceweb-performanceweb-developmentwebapp
apodelko/ckenst.github.io
Apr 2016 - Sep 2018
A simple list of Software Testing Conferences and workshops
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 5 months
testingconferencessoftware-testingtesting-conferences
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