About

Shekhar G. is an accomplished Chief Technology Officer (CTO) with over 18 years of experience in providing top-level architectural direction, driving technical decisions towards technology innovation, strategy, and governance across complex businesses. He is a pragmatic technologist with a strong understanding of new technologies, their patterns, and paradigms and how they can be applied in meeting the business needs. With a solid background in Software Architecture and Design, Shekhar has helped many clients via architecture guidance, review, and mentoring, and delivered high quality business solutions using Clean Code and DevOps practices. He is an expert in designing and building cloud native systems and has working experience in Microservices & Serverless architecture, Cloud Computing, NoSQL databases, Docker, and Container Orchestration tools like Kubernetes. Shekhar is also experienced in Agile & Lean Product Development. He has authored two books – OpenShift Cookbook published by Packt Publishing and Java Unit Testing with JUnit 5 by Apress. Additionally, he has spoken at various international conferences like JavaOne, JudCon, JBoss World, Red Hat Summit, and Great India Developer Summit. An avid blogger on technology, Shekhar's blogs are translated into multiple languages, and his work has been covered by HackerNoon, SDTimes, and ChangeLog among others. He holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering from NIT Kurukshetra. In terms of his technical expertise, Shekhar has worked as a Senior Software Engineer and has experience in Java, Kubernetes, Docker, NoSQL, Microservices, and DevOps. Overall, Shekhar is a highly skilled and knowledgeable CTO with a proven track record of delivering innovative technology solutions.