Hi, my name is
Kaushal Dalvi

Welcome to my web home. I use this site mainly to redo it every few months to learn new tech stacks and also to serve as a backend service provider for my apps. May also try my hand at writing a blog, every once in a while.

Google Certified Cloud Digital Leader Gremlin Certified Chaos Engineering Professional

International Conference Speaker

Upcoming — Anaheim, CA + Online

Speaking at StarWest 2026

Two deep-dive tutorials at StarWest 2026 — September 20–25, 2026. Pick a session to read more.

Tutorial

Testing on the Right: Lessons in Monitoring and Observability

Monitoring and observability get conflated, and that confusion is no longer acceptable in modern quality engineering. In this hands-on workshop you'll work with a real application, unearth its issues, and leave with practical experience implementing logs, metrics, and traces using open-source tooling.

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Recently — Orlando, FL

Spoke at StarEast 2026

Concurrent Session

Beyond the Dev Box: Claude Code Across the Entire Performance Testing Lifecycle

Claude Code isn't just a developer tool — it's a performance engineering powerhouse. Through real working examples and demos, see it applied across the full performance testing lifecycle: workload modeling, script generation, bottleneck analysis, reporting, and CI/CD integration.

Portland, OR

Keynote Speaker
at PNSQC

I was the keynote speaker at PNSQC, where I spoke about 'Value Stream Driven Development and Quality/Performance'.

Intermittent Keto
for your apps!

I did a 5 minute lightning talk at StarEAST about some of the common patterns between life in the pandemic and modern software engineering practices and application performance.

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Opening Keynote atSTARWEST

I brought a new, never-before-read Harry Potter story to the main stage at STARWEST. This was Harry's Software Engineering path when his career as an Auror seemed to be too boring.

Hi, my name is Kaushal Dalvi