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Rohit Bhardwaj
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RohitBhardwaj

DIRECTOR, AI & DATA ARCHITECTURE AT SALESFORCE | AUTHOR | ENTERPRISE AI
01 / BIOGRAPHY

Rohit Bhardwaj is a Director of AI & Data Architecture at Salesforce, where he focuses on enterprise AI, agentic systems, cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, data platforms, security, and large-scale transformation.

Over his career, Rohit has designed and led complex enterprise platforms across AWS, Google Cloud, microservices, real-time data, API ecosystems, resilient distributed systems, and AI-enabled architectures. His work increasingly focuses on the challenges enterprises face as software evolves from deterministic services to AI-native and agentic systems—particularly around reliability, governance, evidence, security, observability, cost, and safe autonomy.

Rohit is the author of System Design with AI Interview Guide: Designing Scalable, Agentic, and Defensible Systems, published by Apress. The book presents a modern approach to system design covering scalability, distributed systems, AI architecture primitives, security, reliability, economics, agentic systems, and real-world architectures including e-commerce, ride sharing, payments, fraud detection, messaging, video streaming, file storage, and search. (Springer Link)

Book:
Amazon: https://a.co/d/09Zs1twa
Publisher / Springer Nature: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/979-8-8688-2782-2
O'Reilly: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/system-design-with/9798868827822/ 

Rohit is also an O’Reilly instructor and a frequent speaker at technology conferences including No Fluff Just Stuff, UberConf, GIDS, and other international events. His talks focus on practical architecture lessons from building and operating complex systems, including AI control planes, trusted agents, inference at scale, evidence-first RAG, AI security, distributed-system failure, and AI-era software architecture.

As a trusted advisor and architecture leader, Rohit works at the intersection of business strategy and deep technical architecture—helping teams translate complex business problems into scalable, resilient, secure, and economically sustainable systems.

Rohit holds an MBA in Corporate Entrepreneurship from Babson College and graduate-level education in Computer Science from Boston University and Harvard University.

Connect with Rohit:
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/rohit-bhardwaj-cloud
X / Twitter: @rbhardwaj1

02 / PRESENTATIONS AT ARCHCONF'21
Mon Dec 13 · 9:00 AM
AWS Certified Solution Architect workshop - Deep Dive →

AWS Certified Architect is one of the hottest and most valuable certifications in 2021. Amazon Web Services is one of the most popular cloud platforms around. Abilities Validated by the Certification are: -- Effectively demonstrate knowledge of how to architect and deploy secure and robust applications on AWS technologies. -- Define a solution using architectural design principles based on customer requirements -- Provide implementation guidance based on best practices to the organization throughout the life cycle of the project

Tue Dec 14 · 5:00 PM
Cloud Integrations, Data Architecture and MDM solutions for Enterprise Applications →

In Cloud Integrations and Data Architecture talk, we will examine secure, scalable integrations on Enterprise applications. Through various scenarios, we will explore designing and implementing intricate integration patterns on multiple platforms. We will review how to communicate the solution and design trade-offs to business and technical people. We will explore the following topics: Design high-performing, secure, and reliable integrations with applications. Analyze existing as-is and future to-be integration models. Integration Architecture blueprint. Streaming patterns. MDM Tools (Master Data Management) Integration with cloud applications. Error handling. Effectively communicate architecture design to various stakeholders at many levels. Follow best Domain practices in integration. Data modeling/Database Design. Data Stewardship. Data Quality Skills (concerned with clean data). Data Governance. Large Data Volume Considerations. Data Migration best practices. Architect robust, scalable security mechanisms for interfaces.

Tue Dec 14 · 8:30 AM
Designing Well Architected Framework Workshop - Deep Dive →

Secure, Efficient, Resilient, High-performing, Sustainable, and Cost-effective Are your applications well-architected? This talk will explore the best practices for operational excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, and cost optimization. Think of systems and services which provide business values. Do you know if all of these services are well-architected? You will learn how to create mechanisms, a repeatable process that allows you to improve over time. We will explore the best practices using real-world examples to make them more concrete and actionable. Well-Architected helps cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for various applications and workloads. They are built around six pillars—operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability. Join expert Rohit Bhardwaj to gain the knowledge and skills you need to solve current cloud implementation problems.

Tue Dec 14 · 10:30 AM
Designing Well Architected Framework Workshop - Deep Dive →

Secure, Efficient, Resilient, High-performing, Sustainable, and Cost-effective Are your applications well-architected? This talk will explore the best practices for operational excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, and cost optimization. Think of systems and services which provide business values. Do you know if all of these services are well-architected? You will learn how to create mechanisms, a repeatable process that allows you to improve over time. We will explore the best practices using real-world examples to make them more concrete and actionable. Well-Architected helps cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for various applications and workloads. They are built around six pillars—operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability. Join expert Rohit Bhardwaj to gain the knowledge and skills you need to solve current cloud implementation problems.

Tue Dec 14 · 1:00 PM
Multi-Tenant NoSQL and NewSQL cloud-data design patterns Workshop →

We are all familiar with the 3rd Normal form. Does that scale? What are the best practices for designing resilient, multi-tenant, performant databases? In this talk, we will explore the database evaluation process, where we will make choices on technology stacks based on requirements and analyzing the CAP theorem. We will discover different Consistency, Availability, and Partition Tolerance techniques, investigate No-SQL databases, and help new cloud deployments using the 3rd Platform. Big data has characteristics in the new Cloud domain, which requires storing various data for different use-cases. We will explore the Document data store, Key-value, Columnar NoSQL, Graph NoSQL and NewSQL databases. Next, we will look at how to do data modeling for NoSQL columnar databases to support highly available partition tolerant use-cases. We will discover different strategies to help multi-tenant requirements. In the end, we will look at how to choose the right database? We will also see what the future of Databases are comparing based on Consistency Models, Schema Models, Database Languages, and Database storage. We will look at data quality patterns and issues and how to use MDM strategy to fix these issues. We will explore survivor ship records and how to validate if the data is correct in system. In the end we will also look at GDPR and PII data strategies.

Tue Dec 14 · 3:00 PM
Multi-Tenant NoSQL and NewSQL cloud-data design patterns Workshop →

We are all familiar with the 3rd Normal form. Does that scale? What are the best practices for designing resilient, multi-tenant, performant databases? In this talk, we will explore the database evaluation process, where we will make choices on technology stacks based on requirements and analyzing the CAP theorem. We will discover different Consistency, Availability, and Partition Tolerance techniques, investigate No-SQL databases, and help new cloud deployments using the 3rd Platform. Big data has characteristics in the new Cloud domain, which requires storing various data for different use-cases. We will explore the Document data store, Key-value, Columnar NoSQL, Graph NoSQL and NewSQL databases. Next, we will look at how to do data modeling for NoSQL columnar databases to support highly available partition tolerant use-cases. We will discover different strategies to help multi-tenant requirements. In the end, we will look at how to choose the right database? We will also see what the future of Databases are comparing based on Consistency Models, Schema Models, Database Languages, and Database storage. We will look at data quality patterns and issues and how to use MDM strategy to fix these issues. We will explore survivor ship records and how to validate if the data is correct in system. In the end we will also look at GDPR and PII data strategies.

Thu Dec 16 · 9:00 AM
AWS Lambda and Serverless Framework workshop →

Modern applications are all built using Serverless Computing. Serverless is one of the top-paying cloud skills. In this talk, we will explore the AWS Serverless framework. Serverless architecture is a way to build and run applications and services without having to manage infrastructure. You’ll learn Serverless Computing from beginning to end. We will take a deep dive into best practices, core features, and advanced features including step functions.

Thu Dec 16 · 11:00 AM
AWS Lambda and Serverless Framework workshop →

Modern applications are all built using Serverless Computing. Serverless is one of the top-paying cloud skills. In this talk, we will explore the AWS Serverless framework. Serverless architecture is a way to build and run applications and services without having to manage infrastructure. You’ll learn Serverless Computing from beginning to end. We will take a deep dive into best practices, core features, and advanced features including step functions.

Wed Dec 15 · 1:30 PM ARCHITECTURE
Architecting AI Enabled Microservices →

Seven steps methodology for designing superior AI-Enabled Microservices In most of the Monolithic applications business objects and data, model designs are already present. As part of moving to cloud, companies miss out of the use-cases the REST APIs need to support. Implementing cloud solutions on top of existing models may lead to performance issues with APIs and cause scalability issues. Clients need to rewrite code due to a new version of APIs.

Wed Dec 15 · 9:00 AM
Enterprise Ethical Hacking and DevSecOps for Cloud Applications Workshop →

Securing a web application is an enormous task. In this talk, we will explore how to protect enterprise applications. Can we shift left and do continuous exploitation testing while the code is still in development? We will explore different kinds of vulnerabilities and how to secure your applications properly. Security patterns need to be understood by first wearing a hacker's hat and then putting the hat as a defender. In this workshop, we will explore different security patterns and determine how to prevent attacks. We will be using OWASP ZAP to exploit applications. Metrics are essential to measuring success for DevOps. In this talk, we will explore different dimensions and measure the Metrics and apply quality gates for DevSecOps projects. As part of our exploration, we will look at how businesses can connect DevOps with Business Metrics. Ultimately Business value is critical for survival for any business. Management needs to realize that keeping DevSecOps will help in the speed of development and track how well the company is doing.

Wed Dec 15 · 11:00 AM
Enterprise Ethical Hacking and DevSecOps for Cloud Applications Workshop →

Securing a web application is an enormous task. In this talk, we will explore how to protect enterprise applications. Can we shift left and do continuous exploitation testing while the code is still in development? We will explore different kinds of vulnerabilities and how to secure your applications properly. Security patterns need to be understood by first wearing a hacker's hat and then putting the hat as a defender. In this workshop, we will explore different security patterns and determine how to prevent attacks. We will be using OWASP ZAP to exploit applications. Metrics are essential to measuring success for DevOps. In this talk, we will explore different dimensions and measure the Metrics and apply quality gates for DevSecOps projects. As part of our exploration, we will look at how businesses can connect DevOps with Business Metrics. Ultimately Business value is critical for survival for any business. Management needs to realize that keeping DevSecOps will help in the speed of development and track how well the company is doing.

Thu Dec 16 · 1:30 PM
Mastering Cloud Scalability and System Designs Workshop →

Real-world applications nowadays are designed using both art and science. What is the process of coming up with a solution which works, scales, and is resilient? What is it challenging to design a system for disruptive technologies? System design is unstructured, and there are many ways to solve problems. Gaining experience in new applications and technologies Best practices change with time. The best way ten years ago can quickly become an anti-pattern. In this talk, we will explore step by step guide to approach System design using real-world applications. Come prepared to design a system for following applications interactively.

Thu Dec 16 · 3:30 PM
Mastering Cloud Scalability and System Designs Workshop →

Real-world applications nowadays are designed using both art and science. What is the process of coming up with a solution which works, scales, and is resilient? What is it challenging to design a system for disruptive technologies? System design is unstructured, and there are many ways to solve problems. Gaining experience in new applications and technologies Best practices change with time. The best way ten years ago can quickly become an anti-pattern. In this talk, we will explore step by step guide to approach System design using real-world applications. Come prepared to design a system for following applications interactively.

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DECEMBER 13 - 16, 2021 · OPAL SANDS RESORT · CLEARWATER, FL