Akash Bhatt

Professional Summary

Over 20 years of experience in enterprise technology, consulting, team leadership, and end-to-end architecture across application, database, and infrastructure domains.
Expertise in multi-cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), with 13+ years of leadership migrating workloads and developing new cloud-native architectures.
Technical lead for a $20M+ customer engagement program including strategy, execution, and support.
Continually advancing skills in GenAI and emerging technologies, collaborating with stakeholders to drive successful business outcomes.

Core Skills

Architecture & Technology Skills	AWS Core Services & Related Skills
AWS Compute, Storage, Big Data, IoT Snowflake Data Warehouse Performance & Cost Optimization Cloud Native App & Infrastructure AWS Well Architected Principles Application Migration to Cloud Microservices & Event Driven Design Test & Behavior Driven Design CI/CD, DevOps & DevSecOps Python (Spark, Pandas, etc) Java (Spring Boot, Spark) Ansible, Azure DevOps	EC2, ECS, Lambda, Outposts Athena, EMR, Glue, Opensearch SNS, SQS, Step Functions RDS, Aurora MySQL, PgSQL, DynamoDB, QLDB, ElastiCache, AWS DMS IoT Core, Greengrass Comprehend, Rekognition API Gateway, CDN, CloudMap S3, EFS CloudWatch, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager AWS Bedrock, Opensearch, SageMaker IAM, CloudFormation, Config, Service Catalog

Professional Experience

Company	Duration	Role / Achievements
Cognizant Technology Solutions Chicago, IL	Oct 2019 – Present	Principal Solution Architect for Caterpillar Inc. Drove 25+ AWS POCs, leading to 30% service adoption and 20% cloud cost savings. Aligned technical architectures with business goals, e.g., using Lambda vs. Docker patterns for 70–80% compute cost reduction on non-24x7 workloads. Pioneered chatbot POCs on AWS Bedrock (RAG, GenAI), integrating with e-commerce (parts.cat.com). Architected Snowflake POCs, optimizing data pipelines and achieving 20–30% storage and 5–10% compute cost savings. Improved security posture with AWS tools; reduced non-compliances by 10%. Presented recommendations quarterly, enabling the team to grow from 2 to 10 members over 6 years. Optimized/modernized cloud/on-prem workloads, achieving 10% cost reduction. Planned migration for 100+ applications using '7Rs' cloud strategy, saving 10–15% in capital/licensing costs.
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. Deerfield, IL	Jun 2014 – Jul 2019	Led technical architecture for retail IVR, increasing call automation by 40%. Introduced containers & Spring Boot reference patterns, saving $50K/year in licensing costs.
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. Noida, India	Aug 2007 – Jun 2014	Developer/Assistant Consultant for Walgreens Boots Alliance Designed/deployed Spring MVC web applications, ensuring scalability for high-throughput environments.
Center for Railway Information Systems Delhi, India	Jun 2005 – Aug 2007	Developer

Certifications

AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
AWS Certified Developer – Associate
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
AWS Certified AI Practitioner

Google Cloud Engineer – Associate
Azure Cloud Fundamentals
ITIL v3 Foundation
Sun Certified Java Programmer – Java 5
Sun Certified Web Component Developer – J2EE 1.4