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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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