About

Hello! I am Rajiv Bhatia having over 25 plus years in IT including Infrastructure Strategy, Solutioning, Design and management, Conduct POCs’

Personal Information
Email:
Rajiv.Bhatia@AOG-LLC.com
Phone:
+1 (703) 798-5322
Address:
13228 Wrenn House Lane, Herndon, VA 20171, United States
Language:
English, Hindi, Punjabi
Expertise
  • Cloud strategy and architecture
  • AWS
  • DevOps
  • Solutions Design
  • Costing
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • SDN
  • Cloud Security
  • AppDynamics
  • Oracle 11G
  • AWS suite
Strong domain knowledge of Infrastructure Virtualization, Cloud technologies and Automation Skills with Ruby, GoCD, Chef, Jenkins, Artifactory, BitBucket, GitHub Enterprise, Docker containers, Nagios, BigBrother and logging solutions using Elk - Elastic search, Logstash & Kibana
Work Experience

2014 – 2015, 2019

MINIBAR SYSTEMS, ROCKVILLE, MD
SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

Engaged with Minibar Systems CEO office & VP Operations as Cloud Strategist & Solutions architect

Provided migration strategy for legacy application to AWS cloud-based solution

Integrated embedded firmware in minibars with AWS hosted application to ensure secure data connectivity, preserve data quality, and predictive data analytics to support backend operations at hotel properties

Technology stack: AWS services, VPC, CloudFront, WAF, setup SAML authentication, IAM, Oracle -> MySQL migration, Data security & migration policies, CloudFormation template(s), and CloudFormer tool

2017 - 2018

NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL INSURANCE (NM)
CLOUD STRATEGIST & ARCHITECT

As a Technical Manager of Business Microservice Delivery at NM, I led a team of Microservice/CICD Solution architects, Java developers, Testing team, and Financial Engineers to support API Services delivery to the Business, vendor integration and Modernization drive.

Responsible for engineering business APIs & related development, deployment on AWS platform, VPC design, IAM, Data Source consolidation design using Kinesis streams, CloudFormation, Terraform to CloudFormation conversion for infrastructure deployment, and Lambda functions.

Designed and delivered SDN architecture assessment, network orchestration layout to support OCP3 platform, OCP3 infrastructure automation using Ansible, Terraform, develop cost model and chargeback process, risk assessment, application performance monitoring solution, conduct POCs’ and provide technology guidance.

Implemented CI/CD to support legacy and greenfield application development on OCP.

Responsible for designing hybrid cloud DevOps solution to support OCP implementation.

Technology stack: Rackspace private hosted cloud, AWS, OpenStack, OpenShift Enterprise 3.x (OCP 3.x), Ansible, Jenkins, AppDynamics, and Terraform for infrastructure deployment code.

2015 - 2017

BARCLAYCARD US (BCUS)
CLOUD STRATEGIST & ARCHITECT

Responsible for designing & implementing a Container Orchestration solution to support legacy applications and Greenfield development.

Conducted POCs & recommended OSE33 as the enterprise container orchestration solution along with Kubernetes native SDN which was adopted by BCUS and other Barclay entities.

Implemented VPC, CloudFront, WAF, setup SAML authentication, IAM user management, roles & policies, Data security & migration policies, CloudFormation, CloudFormer tool and other AWS technologies.

Conducted cloud on-boarding initiatives; POCs; evaluated application containerization & micro-services architecture for legacy application migration & greenfield development into hybrid cloud.

Designed & deployed CI/CD pipeline built around TOGAF architecture with Agile delivery methodologies.

Technology stack: hybrid (Rackspace/OpenStack & AWS) cloud, OSE3x, Zscaler, Terraform, Ansible, DTR, and Jenkins to support CI/CD Agile development. Worked with Capacity planning, DR, Hybrid Cloud architecture, network & security teams to develop an enterprise CI/CD solution.

2009 – 2012

AGILEX TECHNOLOGIES, INC., CHANTILLY, VA.
LEAD SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

The Census Bureau.

Instituted strategic oversight capability allowing The Census Bureau to evaluate current in-progress census surveys in real time.

Led a team to produce comprehensive, phased development plan to transition from current infrastructure into a consolidated data warehouse architecture.

United States Postal Service (USPS).

Designed & built a CIO Scorecard with at-a-glance application & system performance scorecard capability allowing the USPS CIO to assess system performance metrics daily. Consolidated system performance data into a Data warehouse in order to create a reporting technology that afforded high-level assessments and drill down capability.

Designed infrastructure migration plan to save the USPS $100M by migrating from legacy mainframe to a Unix-based architecture over 5 years.

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Led project evaluation and technical audit on a $100M project.

Generated recommendations to plug in technical debt and saved the project.

Technologies: EMC, JAVA, J2EE, Oracle 10/11G, Oracle Warehouse Builder, SAS, Web Logic, MicroStrategy

2004 – 2009

OPENWAVE SYSTEMS, VIENNA, VA.
SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

Focused on mobile technology to ensure “on demand” multimedia services for telecommunications carriers like Sprint/Nextel & Cox Communications. Launched Multimedia Services (MMS) to Sprint/Nextel handheld devices for 5 Million plus customers to exchange voice, video and text content.

Introduced geo-location functionality adopted by law enforcement initially and developed for location-driven commercial marketing applications using data warehouse implementations.

Technologies: P7000 Tape Library & Quantum DX200 disk array, EMC Control Center, EMC DMX-200 arrays using ECC, Oracle warehouse builder, TimeFinder, PowerPath, created VERITAS volume groups, volumes & FS.

2003 – 2003

DBITES LLC, HERNDON, VA.
INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR

Focused on generating IT consulting business. Responded to RFPs.

2001 – 2003

DYNCORP I & ET, LANHAM, MD.
ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS ARCHITECT

At the IRS, I led DBA team in delivering 99% uptime systems, HA, Capacity planning, DR, & Enterprise storage.

2000 – 2001

BRIVO SYSTEMS, ROSSLYN, VA.
DIRECTOR, DATABASE SERVICES

Mobile communication-enabled secure package delivery and notification system that allowed couriers to deliver packages to a “Brivo Box”.

Led production support for large-scale Oracle environments to support UPS & FedEx; prepared business plan and secured budget approvals.

1999 – 2000

TV ON THE WEB, HERNDON, VA.
VICE PRESIDENT, TECHNOLOGY

Led team of 30 leading edge technologists in the early stages of the pay per view, online media model.

1989 – 1998

Perot Systems Corporation, Reston, VA

Export Software International, Reston, VA

The World Bank, Washington DC

Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN

ICIM, New Delhi, India.

Education

2019

Certification
AWS CERTIFIED SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT ASSOCIATE

2015

Certification
TOGAF 9.1 Certified Architect (Part I & II)

2014

Master's Degree
MBA

Georgetown University, Washington DC

In September 2014, I received the Georgetown ESADE Global Executive MBA degree studying global economics, markets, strategy, operations, and culture on location in the US, Europe, South America, and Asia. The Georgetown-ESADE Global Executive MBA (GEMBA) program combines the interdisciplinary teaching strengths of Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business, Walsh School of Foreign Service, and ESADE’s (Spain) strengths in entrepreneurship and social innovation.

1989

Bachelor's Degree
B.E. (Bachelor of Engineering), Computer Science & Engineering

Mysore University, India