Claude Certified Architect Readiness for Developers

Name: ArchConf
Start: 2026-12-07T08:00-0500
End: 2026-12-10T14:30-0500
Location: Opal Sands Resort

Rohit Bhardwaj

DIRECTOR OF ARCHITECTURE, EXPERT IN CLOUD-NATIVE SOLUTIONS

01 / ABOUT THIS SESSION

Certification-readiness talk with architecture scenarios, exam-domain mapping, practical examples, and production-design guidance.
Claude is no longer just a chatbot for writing answers. It is becoming part of how developers design, build, review, and automate software. Claude Code can help developers work across repositories, Claude Code GitHub Actions can respond to issues and pull requests, MCP can connect Claude to external tools and systems, and the Claude Agent SDK enables developers to build custom agentic workflows. This creates a new skill requirement for architects: knowing how to design Claude-powered systems that are safe, measurable, governable, and production-ready.
This talk provides a practical readiness roadmap for developers and architects preparing for Claude architecture work and Claude certification-style expectations. We will cover Claude platform fundamentals, Claude Code workflows, MCP/tool governance, Agent SDK patterns, API design, RAG, evals, observability, security, and enterprise deployment concerns. Participants will also work through certification-style scenarios that test architectural judgment, not memorization.

The goal is simple: do not just learn Claude. Learn how to architect with Claude.
Claude's certification should not be treated as a badge. It should be treated as proof that an architect can design safe, production-ready Claude-powered systems.
Main audience promise
By the end of the talk, participants will understand what they need to study, practice, and demonstrate to become Claude architecture-ready.
They will leave with:

A Claude architecture domain map
A certification-readiness roadmap
A practical Claude Code workflow model
An MCP/tool governance model
Production architecture patterns for Claude-powered systems
Scenario-style questions for self-assessment
A 30-day preparation plan
Primary focus
This is not a generic Claude intro. It is a Claude architecture readiness talk.
It should cover:
Claude platform landscape
Claude Code workflow
Agent SDK
MCP/tool use
Claude API patterns
Claude-powered RAG
agentic workflows
context management
prompt and instruction design
evals
observability
security
data boundaries
cost awareness
deployment and governance
certification-style scenarios

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02 / SESSION DETAILS

FORMAT

90-minute session

TRACK

VIBE

03 / MORE FROM ROHIT BHARDWAJ

01 Claude Code Architecture: From Vibe Coding to Governed Engineering Systems → 02 From Brute Force to Brilliance: Algorithmic Thinking in the Age of AI ALGORITHMICTHINKING → 03 GraphRAG & Explainable AI: Building Trustworthy LLM Outputs → 04 AI Inference at Scale: Reliability, Observability, Cost & Sustainability → 05 AI-Era System Design & Architecture Mastery Katas SYSTEMDESIGN → 06 Architecting Microservices for Agentic AI Integration → 07 Beyond APIs: Orchestration Patterns & MCP for Multi-Agent Systems → 08 Run an AWS Generative-AI Well-Architected Review → 09 Securing LLMs in Production: From OWASP Top-10 to Guardrails that Work NISTAI → 10 From APIs to MCPs: Making Microservices Agent-Ready with Semantic Context →

YOUR SPEAKER

Rohit Bhardwaj

DIRECTOR OF ARCHITECTURE, EXPERT IN CLOUD-NATIVE SOLUTIONS

Rohit Bhardwaj is a Director of Architecture working at Salesforce. Rohit has extensive experience architecting multi-tenant cloud-native solutions in Resilient Microservices Service-Oriented architectures using AWS Stack. In addition, Rohit has a proven ability in designing solutions and executing and delivering transformational programs that reduce costs and increase efficiencies.

As a trusted advisor, leader, and collaborator, Rohit applies problem resolution, analytical, and operational skills to all initiatives and develops strategic requirements and solution analysis through all stages of the project life cycle and product readiness to execution.
Rohit excels in designing scalable cloud microservice architectures using Spring Boot and Netflix OSS technologies using AWS and Google clouds. As a Security Ninja, Rohit looks for ways to resolve application security vulnerabilities using ethical hacking and threat modeling. Rohit is excited about architecting cloud technologies using Dockers, REDIS, NGINX, RightScale, RabbitMQ, Apigee, Azul Zing, Actuate BIRT reporting, Chef, Splunk, Rest-Assured, SoapUI, Dynatrace, and EnterpriseDB. In addition, Rohit has developed lambda architecture solutions using Apache Spark, Cassandra, and Camel for real-time analytics and integration projects.

Rohit has done MBA from Babson College in Corporate Entrepreneurship, Masters in Computer Science from Boston University and Harvard University. Rohit is a regular speaker at No Fluff Just Stuff, UberConf, RichWeb, GIDS, and other international conferences.

Rohit loves to connect on http://www.productivecloudinnovation.com.
http://linkedin.com/in/rohit-bhardwaj-cloud or using Twitter at rbhardwaj1.

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DECEMBER 7 - 10, 2026 · OPAL SANDS RESORT · CLEARWATER, FL