Rahul Kachhara
Abu Dhabi
Summary
Accomplished cloud delivery and program leader with 15+ years of experience driving $500M+ strategic accounts in high-compliance and national interest sectors. Proven record of leading digital transformation, managing P&L, and optimizing delivery across private and restricted cloud environments. Trusted advisor to C-level executives, with deep expertise in cloud migration, AI integration, and secure service delivery across the UAE and APAC.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Associate Director
Core42
04.2022 - Current
- Lead $500M national-interest cloud delivery account, managing $200M+ annual revenue with full P&L ownership across private and restricted cloud services.
- Direct multi-phase digital transformation programs and risk-managed migrations, driving compliance and operational excellence in highly secure environments.
- Mentor and lead a 7–10 member team, enhancing performance, cross-skilling, and delivery agility across complex workstreams.
- Serve as primary delivery approver in pre-review governance, ensuring solution readiness before leadership review.
- Act as the business development SPOC for the account leader; collaborate with sales leadership to shape and qualify direct and indirect opportunities.
- Built and institutionalized fast-track exception handling, reducing delivery cycles and aligning departmental KPIs with strategic growth targets.
Senior Program Manager
Rackspace
01.2022 - 03.2022
- Led 6 multi-cloud engagements across AWS, Azure, and GCP, delivering exceptional customer solutions
- Implemented best practices for pipeline management, services estimation, and profitability management
- Acted as an escalation point in deal cycles, providing expertise to ensure delivery quality
- Managed cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products within scope and budget constraints.
Professional Services Project Manager
Datacom
07.2021 - 12.2021
- Coordinated and executed 6 cloud migration and infrastructure upgrade projects successfully
- Collaborated with key account executives to engage new customers and develop Statements of Work
- Monitored project budgets, forecasts, and deliverables to ensure project success on a weekly basis
Cloud Transformation Project Manager
Wipro Limited
10.2019 - 06.2021
- Led a 100M AUD AWS migration and transformation program, achieving 100% compliance with 'TfNSW' governance and delivery timelines.
- Managed 20+ cross-functional stakeholders across agencies and vendors, ensuring seamless coordination and milestone alignment.
- Directed a hybrid onshore/offshore delivery model, optimizing resource utilization and resolving 50K+ AUD in technical debt.
- Delivered successful migration of 30+ COTS, .NET, and Java applications, including complex SAP/IBM workloads.
- Led a DevOps team of 10, enabling CI/CD pipelines that reduced deployment time by 40%.
- Mentored 3 PMs and 2 graduates, increasing delivery efficiency by 4% and cutting defect resolution time by over 20% in Q2.
Project Manager
Amadeus Software Labs
04.2016 - 05.2019
- Delivered key deployments for Qantas and Malaysia Airlines, including Amadeus Schedule Recovery and self-service airport systems (ACUS, BRS).
- Launched cloud-based MVPs on AWS (Elastic Beanstalk) to accelerate customer platform rollouts.
- Managed SERIFA-Pega COTS delivery across 3 global agile teams, enhancing procurement operations.
- Led TLS 1.2 remediation and secure data migration for 10,000+ VMware ESXi servers to meet PCI compliance.
- Drove cybersecurity uplift by enabling Palo Alto wildfire services and Splunk-based threat detection.
- Completed IT asset and service design rollout across 16 global sites, delivering on time and under budget.
Service Delivery Consultant
Hewlett Packard Enterprises
06.2015 - 04.2016
- Acted as Service Delivery Manager for HP’s largest telephony account (Avaya), managing U.S.-based operations from India.
- Handled firewall rule implementation, Citrix Netscaler load-balancing, and VPN token migration.
Technical Project Manager
Orange Business Services
03.2014 - 05.2015
- Led technical projects spanning telephony and infrastructure requirements.
- Delivered multi-industry business projects for customers like Phillip Morris, ISOS, and Xerox.
Senior Systems Engineer
Ericsson Global India
08.2010 - 02.2014
- Handled IT operations and service delivery for telecom environments.
- Supported Citrix and Network operations, managing load balancers and user infrastructure.
- Participated in major project rollouts across enterprise environments.
Network Engineer
Aegis Tech
10.2009 - 07.2010
- Managed corporate IT infrastructure and storage systems.
- Delivered network setup and rack deployments on customer sites.
- Handled service continuity for call center IT systems.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics
University of Rajasthan
Master of Science - Responsible AI
OPIT
12-2025
Skills
- Strategic leadership
- Technical implementation
- Fiscal oversight
- Key relationship management
Certification
- PMP
- AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate
- Azure Fundamentals AZ-900 - Microsoft
- Eliciting and Managing Requirements - 80twenty
- Certified Scrum Master
- Certified Scrum Product Owner
- Cisco Certified Network Associate
- Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate
- VMware Certified Associate-Datacenter Virtualization
- ITIL Intermediate - Service Operations
- ITIL Foundation v3
Microsoft Project Professional
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
German
Beginner (A1)
Personal Information
Technical Snapshot
Cloud & Virtualization:
AWS (EC2, S3, FSx, EBS, ALB, AWS Sync), Azure, GCP, Huawei Cloud, VMware (vCenter, ESXi Gen10, vMotion), NVIDIA, AMD
Application & Database Migration:
COTS, Dynamics CRM, .NET, Java, PEGA, GIS, MS SQL, MS Access, DB2, IBM Cognos, IBM Datastage, IBM Integration Bus, Oracle GoldenGate
DevOps & Automation:
Jenkins, JFrog, Bitbucket, XL Release, Terraform, HashiCorp Vault, AWS DevOps Tools
Monitoring & Observability:
Dynatrace, BMC, Holmes, Tableau, SIEM, Skybox, CMDB, Commvault
Security, Compliance & Governance:
PCI DSS, GDPR (PII), TLS 1.2, IDAM, CyberArk, HashiCorp Vault
AI & Modeling Tools (via MSc in Responsible AI - OPIT):
Python (Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras), Jupyter, Google Colab, Kaggle, VS Code
OpenAI API, Hugging Face, Gradio, Streamlit, MLFlow, Weights & Biases
Responsible AI Toolkits (Fairness, Explainability, Bias Audits), LLM Evaluation (GPT-4, Claude 3)
Project & Collaboration Tools:
JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, MS Project
Awards
- Certificate of Appreciation: Awarded by Program Director of Transport for NSW for excellent performance in FTN refactoring and executing the new pipeline CR Process reducing the refactoring time by 25% with automation.
- Key Performer Award: Recognized for the first successful go-live of a complex application migration for Government of Australia out of 160 applications to AWS.
- Collaboration Star Award: Received for completing the sales process for a 136 Million Dirham contract between CPX and Core42.
- Superstar Award: Awarded for managing the delivery of the biggest client account, generating a revenue of over 200 Million Dollar at G42 group level.
Timeline
Associate Director
Core42
04.2022 - Current
Senior Program Manager
Rackspace
01.2022 - 03.2022
Professional Services Project Manager
Datacom
07.2021 - 12.2021
Cloud Transformation Project Manager
Wipro Limited
10.2019 - 06.2021
Project Manager
Amadeus Software Labs
04.2016 - 05.2019
Service Delivery Consultant
Hewlett Packard Enterprises
06.2015 - 04.2016
Technical Project Manager
Orange Business Services
03.2014 - 05.2015
Senior Systems Engineer
Ericsson Global India
08.2010 - 02.2014
Network Engineer
Aegis Tech
10.2009 - 07.2010
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics
University of Rajasthan
Master of Science - Responsible AI
OPIT
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