Alexander Podelko has specialized in performance since 1997, working as a performance engineer and architect for several companies. Currently he is Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle, responsible for performance testing and optimization of Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence (a.k.a. Hyperion) products.

Alexander periodically talks and writes about performance-related topics, advocating tearing down silo walls between different groups of performance professionals. His collection of performance-related links and documents (including his articles and presentations) can be found at http://www.alexanderpodelko.com. Alexander blogs at http://alexanderpodelko.com/blog and can be found on Twitter as @apodelko. He currently serves as a board director for the Computer Measurement Group (CMG, http://cmg.org), an non-profit organization of performance and capacity planning professionals.