Claude Certified Architect Readiness for Developers
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
About Rohit Bhardwaj
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