Alicia Kim
Senior Performance Engineer | Cloud Native Systems | Observability & Automation
Email: alicia.kim@example.com | Phone: +1 555 0123 | LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/aliciakim | GitHub: github.com/aliciakim
Profile Summary
Results oriented performance engineer with 8+ years delivering scalable, low latency software in cloud environments. Expertise in load testing, profiling, capacity planning, and incident response. Strong collaborator bridging SRE, DevOps and development teams to optimize performance and reliability.
Experience
Acme Tech Solutions
Senior Performance Engineer • Apr 2021 - Present • San Francisco, CA
- Led end to end performance testing strategy for a mass market platform, reducing median latency by 35
- Built scalable load testing pipelines using JMeter and k6; integrated with CI CD workflows
- Implemented observability dashboards with Prometheus and Grafana; defined SLOs and error budgets
Nova Systems
Performance Engineer • Jun 2018 - Mar 2021 • Bengaluru, India
- Architected performance dashboards enabling capacity planning across 12 microservices
- Optimized database queries and caching layers; improved latency by 28
- Collaborated with SRE and dev teams to create runbooks for incident response during peak load
Zen Labs
Junior Performance Engineer • Jan 2016 - May 2018 • Seattle, WA
- Supported load testing campaigns and contributed to performance baselines
Skills
- Performance Testing
- Load Testing (JMeter, k6)
- Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
- Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure)
- CI CD and Automation (GitLab CI, Jenkins)
- Capacity Planning and Sizing
- Linux/Unix Administration
- Python, Bash, SQL
- Profiling and Debugging
Certifications
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
- ISTQB Performance Testing Foundation
- Certified Reliability Engineer
Education
Master of Science in Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, 2017
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, 2015