Dheerendra Rahul

Solution Architect  ·  Enterprise Modernization  ·  AI Integration  ·  25+ Years
Scalability  ·  Legacy Modernization  ·  Cloud Cost Discipline  ·  Security & Compliance  ·  AI Adoption

Profile

Solution Architect with 25+ years of experience designing, modernizing, and rescuing large-scale distributed systems across Healthcare, FinTech, ERP, Retail, and AI-driven platforms. I treat software architecture as a system-thinking discipline — the same way banks, insurers, and supply chains do — and apply it to bring messy, expensive, hard-to-change platforms back to a clean, scalable, cost-controlled, secure, and AI-ready baseline.

I am a hands-on architect: I write the migration scripts, prove the new pattern in code, set up the deployment, and only then hand it to the team. Most engagements end with a smaller cloud bill, a smaller team needed to run the system, and a documented playbook for the next round of change.

Problem-Solution Framework

The six recurring problems I am brought in to solve, and how I approach each.

Scalability

Profile real usage first; right-size to the actual user base, not a hypothetical one. Identify the 3–5 services that truly need to scale horizontally; keep the rest as a tight monolith. Avoid premature microservice sprawl.

Legacy System Mess

Document the legacy first (often AI-assisted), draw the table-to-table and endpoint-to-endpoint mapping, then rewrite in slices behind a feature flag. Old runs while the new takes over module by module. Always reversible.

Cloud Cost Explosion

Scaling is not free. Measure cost-per-user before and after, kill components running for show, collapse over-fragmented services, set ceilings (auto-scale max, RIs, lifecycle policies). Typical: 60–90% reduction.

Security & Compliance

Reduce external surface area before adding controls. Replace third-party auth/email/search with in-process equivalents where the trade-off makes sense. Cookie-based permissions → JWT + server-side RBAC. Compliance as a phase, not an afterthought.

Integration Chaos

Design a clean integration boundary up-front: ROPC for service-to-service, OAuth2/OIDC for human, webhooks for outbound. Document every contract. New partners onboard in days, not quarters.

AI Adoption & Confusion

Use AI where it pays for itself (legacy code analysis, lead qualification, content drafting, support automation), and don't where it doesn't (deterministic transactions, billing, regulated decisions). Pair every LLM with a deterministic rule layer.

Core Architecture Expertise

Modernization & Migration

  • Legacy → modern stack migrations: Java 6 → 21, .NET Framework → .NET 8, VB.NET → modern frameworks, Spring Boot → Python FastAPI
  • AI-assisted code translation: VS Code plugins for legacy documentation, agent-driven module-by-module porting
  • Database evolution tracking: auto-generated table-to-table mapping, change diffs registered into release notes
  • Modular monolith from over-fragmented microservices (40 → 1 done at Inara; preserved boundaries for re-extraction)

Cloud & Cost Engineering

  • AWS-native: EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, CloudFront, SES, SNS, KMS, ALB, Route 53
  • Cost discipline: 85–90% infra reduction (Inara: $3.5–5.5K/mo → $340–545/mo)
  • Auto-scaling design with explicit ceilings to prevent runaway costs
  • CDN-first asset strategy (S3 + CloudFront) replacing managed CMS pods

Security & Compliance

  • HIPAA, SOC 2 readiness: PostgreSQL RLS, field-level PHI encryption via AWS KMS, audit logging, vendor security review
  • Multi-tenant SaaS isolation at schema, query, and row-level (RLS)
  • Auth migration: cookie-based → JWT + server-side RBAC; ROPC for service-to-service
  • OAuth2, OIDC, SAML/SCIM federation for enterprise SSO

AI Engineering

  • Agentic AI: LangChain, LangGraph, custom agent loops with tool/function calling
  • RAG pipelines: chunking, embeddings (OpenAI text-embedding-3), vector DBs (Chroma, pgvector, FAISS)
  • Multi-provider LLM orchestration with fallback and cost/latency routing (OpenAI GPT-4o, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, AWS Bedrock)
  • Prompt-engineering standards, regression evaluation harnesses, agent observability
  • Conversational AI on WhatsApp Business Cloud API; voice agents (browser STT/TTS today, Twilio + Deepgram + ElevenLabs path planned)

Backend & Data

  • Java: Spring Boot 3.x, Spring Cloud, WebFlux, JPA/Hibernate, Maven/Gradle
  • Python: FastAPI, asyncio, SQLAlchemy async, Pydantic, Celery
  • .NET: 4.x and 8.x, ASP.NET, EF Core, IIS deployment automation (WiX)
  • Databases: PostgreSQL (RLS, tsvector, pg_trgm, JSONB), MySQL/SQL Server enterprise tuning, MongoDB, Neo4j, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch
  • Event-driven: Apache Kafka, WebSockets, Server-Sent Events, idempotent consumers, DLQ

DevOps & Delivery

  • CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
  • Single-script installers (WiX + Python) replacing manual multi-step deployments — full uninstall/install/config-restore in one command
  • Observability: structured logging, Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry
  • Multi-environment promotion with feature flags and reversible rollouts

Featured Solutions

Each project is framed as Problem → Solution → Outcome. Stack and role stated up front.

Earlier Professional Experience

Mar'26 – Present Kogmito AI — Solution Architect

Inara Platform re-engineering, WhatsApp Sales Agent, Crimson getConnect migration, Jobscope modernization. Detailed in Featured Solutions above.

Mar'22 – Oct'24 OffPeakBreak — Chief Delivery Officer
  • RTS — competitive online exam app: Spring Boot microservices, JWT auth, real-time exam engine, scalable result analytics, AWS containerised deployment
  • Institute Management System with online exam + GST simulator: REST APIs, modular exam engine, automated grading, role-based access
  • E-commerce platform: catalog/cart/order/payment microservices, JWT, transactional order lifecycle, payment gateway, caching for high-traffic listings
  • OffPeakBreak (hotel & event booking): B2B booking microservices, bidding engine for hotel owners (event-driven), advanced filtering + geo-search, on-prem → AWS migration
Oct'17 – Mar'22 Eureka Mobile Advertisement — Chief Delivery Officer
  • Tap to Shop — plug-and-play e-commerce SDK: Java backend, JAX-RS + Spring REST, high-concurrency request handling, traffic-spike optimisation
  • Inventory & Vendor Management: microservices for inventory + order, vendor lifecycle, Tally accounting integration, scalable barcode generation
  • My Hi-Street-Shopping: modular Java backend, role-based REST services, transactional schema optimisation, payment + notification integration, AWS deployment
  • Secure Society (Android/iOS): modular Java backend, role-based REST services, payment integration, AWS deployment
  • Eureka m-Commerce (Android): scalable mobile-advertising backend, AI-driven targeting engine, event-driven campaign processing, real-time idle-screen engagement
Aug'12 – Sept'17 Xoriant Solutions Pvt Ltd — Solution Architect
  • Imed-Go: REST services for GPS-based emergency alerting, real-time location handling, scalable backend for panic events, clustered HA deployment
  • MediaMath (Project Manager): scalable Java backend for ad delivery, high-volume request processing, performance optimisation under heavy traffic, structured logging & monitoring
  • Document Management System for Citi Bank (Project Lead): secure document upload APIs, encrypted storage, access control + audit trails, enterprise-grade compliance
2004 – 2012 Wipro / McGraw-Hill / PIT / Paragon — Senior J2EE Developer
  • J2EE enterprise modules using EJB, JPA, Servlets
  • Secure RESTful web services
  • Oracle / SQL Server performance optimisation
  • Clustered JBoss deployments
  • Transaction management & ORM best practices
  • Led small engineering teams & code reviews

Education

  • MMS (Systems) — Devi Ahilya University, Indore (M.P.) — 1999
  • B.Sc. (Mathematics) — Barkatullah University, Bhopal (M.P.) — 1997
  • Higher Secondary — CBSE (M.P.) — 1994
  • Secondary — CBSE (M.P.) — 1992