About

Rakesh Patri is a highly experienced and hands-on software architect with a proven track record in building distributed, highly scalable, and microservices-based applications with infrastructure based on multi-tenant public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) and on-premises. With 9 years of relevant experience, he has a consistent endeavor to think big, scale fast, and always ready to work in any phase of the program lifecycle. In addition to his technical skills, Rakesh has experience in product development, engineering management, consulting - solutions architect, design, development, implementation, and support. He is proficient in software product integration, interfaces (inbound/outbound) architect, design, and development. Rakesh has a proven track record in team building, mentorship, and delivery management. He has excellent understanding of the onshore and offshore models and has managed geographically distributed teams and vendors to deliver the products and solutions. Rakesh's leadership strengths include strong and strategic decision making, end-to-end delivery, execution, innovation, and change management. He is a people's leader with strong team building and influencing skills, coaching & mentoring, and effective delegation. He has the ability to quickly assess and learn unfamiliar systems and to quickly analyze, scope, and establish technical and business requirements for projects and relationships. Rakesh is a technology enthusiast with keen interest to learn new technologies. He is well-versed in RoR, Ruby, Python, Spark, Data analytics, devops, SRE, and has extensive knowledge of CI-CD (gitlabCI, fluxCD, argoCD, Spinaker, Azure DevOps Pipeline, Helm Charts, terraform, ansible, etc.). He has experience in developing event-driven applications using Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Azure Eventhub, google pubsub. Rakesh has working knowledge of cloud-native technologies in and around docker and Kubernetes. Rakesh has a strong understanding of SDLC and agile methodology. He has experience in data migration, ETL tools for system integrations, enabling monitoring stacks like ELK, Graylog, prometheus, reporting, and dashboarding using grafana, kibana. He has good knowledge of version controlling with git and has worked with tools like Atlassian JIRA, Azure DevOps, Sonarqube, etc. Rakesh holds an Engineer’s Degree in Mining and Mineral Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi