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10 software performance engineering experts
These ten engineers and managers have led software performance engineering inside operating companies, in roles such as performance engineering manager, lead performance engineer and director of performance engineering. A reader can learn how performance engineering leaders build and run their teams.
Professionals to explore
01—10Datta Deshmukh
LinkedInExperience: Director Performance Engineering · Coupa
Director Performance Engineering at Coupa since 2026. The profile also lists Senior Manager Performance Engineering (2022–2026) and Manager, Performance Engineering (2020–2022) at Coupa, and Senior Performance Engineer at IBM (2010–2017), and cites a specialization in strategy, scripting, execution and production performance troubleshooting.
Debayan De Sarkar
LinkedInExperience: Performance Engineering Manager · Expedia Group
Former Performance Engineering Manager at Expedia Group (2015–2019), and former Senior Software Development Engineer (Automation & Performance Engineering) (2019–2022) and Senior Design Engineer (Performance Testing Lead) (2013–2015) there. Lead Performance Engineer (LMTS) , AI Cloud Performance Engineering at Salesforce since 2022.
Jason Ding
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director, Performance Engineering · Salesforce
Former Sr. Director, Performance Engineering (2013–2016), Director, Performance Engineering (2011–2013) and Vice President of Engineering (2016–2020) at Salesforce, and Senior Vice President of Engineering there since 2020. Former Sr. Performance Architect, Data Center and Virtualization at Cisco (2009–2011). The profile describes a focus on quality, performance and scalability for enterprise software and cloud infrastructure.
Kasi Raju
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Engineering Manager - Performance · Salesforce
Sr. Engineering Manager - Performance at Salesforce since 2021. Former Principal Member Tech Staff - Performance Engineering at Salesforce (2020–2021), Sr. Performance Engineering Manager at Vlocity, a Salesforce Company (2015–2020), Performance Team Manager at Jive Software (2013–2015) and Performance Team Lead Principal at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (2008–2013).
Madhuri Swarna
LinkedInExperience: Lead Performance Engineer · ClickUp
Lead Performance Engineer at ClickUp since 2022. Former Lead Performance Engineer (2015–2021), Sr.Performance Test Engineer (2014–2021) and Performance Testing Engineer (2012–2014) at Quest Diagnostics. The profile lists managing a performance team located in the USA and offshore and evaluating and onboarding new products for performance testing.
Pratik Gwalani
LinkedInExperience: Senior Manager - Performance & Capacity Engineering · Meta
Former Senior Manager - Performance & Capacity Engineering at Meta (2022–2025), Senior Manager - Performance Engineering at VMware (2022), Manager - Performance SRE Engineering at City National Bank (2021–2022) and Sr. Manager - Site Reliability and Performance Engineering at ADP (2018–2021). Sr. Manager - Site Reliability Engineering at Crusoe since 2025.
Prerak Shah
LinkedInExperience: Performance Lead · Mastercard
Performance Lead at Mastercard since 2024. Former Senior Performance Engineer (2018–2024) and Performance Engineer and tester (2014–2018) at Mastercard, and Performance Test Engineer at eInfochips (An Arrow Company) (2013–2014). The profile describes embedding performance by design into mission-critical systems.
Rupesh Bandre
LinkedInExperience: Software Performance Engineering Lead · Salesforce
Software Performance Engineering Lead at Salesforce since 2017. Former Principle Performance Engineer at Oracle (2011–2017), where the profile says this person worked with Oracle's Utilities Group Business Unit, and former Database Performance Analyst at Tata Consultancy Services (2006–2011).
Suresh Madikonda
LinkedInExperience: Principal Engineer - Manager Performance · OpenText
Former Principal Engineer - Manager Performance (2019–2022), Staff Performance Engineer (2013–2018) and Lead Performance Engineer (2010–2013) at OpenText. Principal Performance Engineer at Salesforce since 2022. The profile lists performance engineering, benchmarking, root cause analysis and managing the team among key skills.
Swati Jahagirdar
LinkedInExperience: Engineering Manager, Scale & Performance · HashiCorp
Engineering Manager, Scale & Performance at HashiCorp since 2025, where the profile describes leading the scale and performance engineering team. Former Team Lead - Performance Engineering at Software AG (2022–2024), Senior Performance Engineer at Visa (2019–2022) and Performance Engineer at Rakuten India (2018–2019).
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's hands-on depth to your need, whether you want someone who leads a performance organization or someone who runs tests and tunes systems directly. Ask each person which kinds of systems and load profiles they have tested, and how they fit performance work into the release cycle.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01Where in the development cycle do you put performance testing so that problems surface before release rather than in production?
- 02How do you set performance targets and decide when a regression is serious enough to block a release?
- 03How do you plan capacity for growth without overspending on infrastructure?
Reaching software performance engineering experts
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Pick one of the 10 people on this page and choose "Book a paid call", or describe your project to find others. You offer a fee for a 15-minute call or a written answer, Instant Expert finds the person's work email and sends the invitation, and they decide whether to accept. The list covers 8 companies, including Coupa, Expedia Group and Salesforce, based on profile data retrieved on October 4, 2026. Being listed here doesn't mean someone has agreed to take calls.
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