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Rahul Sharma

Chief Architect, Consul Enterprise @ HashiCorp | Ex-GitHub | Ex-Microsoft

Bengaluru

16+ years of work experience

HashiCorp
Dec 20259 mosPresent

Chief Architect, Consul Enterprise Full architecture owner: Agentic, cell-based, multi-port, ext-authz, ext-proc. Global technical lead for Consul Engineering. Authored Consul MCP Server; driving AI mesh innovation.
HashiCorp
May 20251 yr 4 mosAug 2026

As the Global Technical Leader and Technical Owner of Consul Service Mesh, I drive the evolving architecture and technological vision of the product. I am currently leading the strategic development of the Agentic Mesh, embedding advanced AI capabilities directly into the service mesh architecture—an initiative supported by multiple filed patents to ensure a sharp competitive edge in the market. Combining deep technical execution with strategic leadership, I partner directly with enterprise clients, field teams, and account executives to solve complex architectural challenges and accelerate customer success.
HashiCorp
May 20232 yrs 1 moMay 2025

India

At Hashicorp, I am leading several engineering initiatives of Consul Cloud and Terraform Cloud/Enterprise. I am responsible for driving the Architecture and RFCs of the Initiatives, I contribute to the POCs/Exploration/Spikes on critical part of the Initiatives to mitigate the risks, I also contribute development tasks. I also contribute to the demos to the stakeholders. I follow pragmatism and show empathy toward my team members. I also mentor my team.
GitHub
Jan 20222 yrs 4 mosApr 2024

India

At GitHub, I am leading the software design activities of the leading CI/CD platform GitHub-Actions. My role revolves around building the Software Architecture using inputs from the Product Team. The application serves 90+ million customers every day with 99.9% availability, Secure and compliance with Privacy. I also contribute to the EPIC planning, coding and code reviews, helping the team to achieve the team goals. I re-designed the OIDC access control for GitHub Actions which enabled the customers to granularly define the access-control. I am also the design owner of the new GitHub Actions for solving the Supply Chain Security issues. I also contributed to the GitHub release platform to persist and serve the release-artifacts using OCI images. Tech Stack: Backend: Ruby, Go and C# mircorservices DB: MySQL backed by Vitess Communication: Kafka, twirp with protobuff, HTTP Rest API Log repository: Splunk Error repository: Sentry BI: Kusto Monitoring: Datadog/Lightsteps CI/CD: GitHub Actions
EFI
Apr 20192 yrs 10 mosJan 2022

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Deep experience in Java full-stack product design development and research helping different product lines of the organization to meet the customer requirements and market competitiveness. Leading and Contributing to the design/development/implementation and cloudification of a product using event driven architecture. The task required deep knowledge and experience in the distributed system to develop a battle-tested, chaos engineering and maintainable system. Skills • Good negotiation, consensus-building & influencing skills, facilitation, and the adaptability to respond to change quickly • Excellent communication including the ability to distil technical details into human terms (Working with PO in backlog grooming) • Strong knowledge of quality best-practices (various types of design, development, tests, performance, deployment etc.) • Highly capable in programming using Java 11(Concurrency, Streams, Design principle and patterns, GUI framework Swing, Java 2D, Spring boot, JUnit). • Highly skilled in data structure, algorithms and problem solving. • Solid knowledge of backend engineering (Event driven architecture using messaging queue, APIs) • Solid knowledge Java and shell script. • Experience designing and implementing RESTful services, Angular 12, good knowledge of HTTP specifics • Attention to details, high standards for quality • Highly developed oral and written communication skills; strong presentation skills • Good knowledge of various networking protocols and terminology (TCP/IP, gateways, routers, firewalls, etc.) • Good knowledge of distributed design. • Expert in agile software development methodology. Tech Stack: Packaging/containerization: Docker and Install shield Communication: Http Rest, JMS, Hotfolder Coding language: Java, Spring Boot Frontend: Angular 12, Java Swing, Java graphics 2D Load balancing: Ribbon, NGNIX API Gateway: Netflix Zuul Service communication: Rabbit MQ and Active MQ Logging: ELK, EFL Log tracing: Sleuth and Zipkin
EFI
May 20145 yrsApr 2019

Experienced in breaking a "Monolith Application" to "Distributed Cloud Native Application" Designing and Implementing highly scalable and available system.
GE Healthcare
Feb 20122 yrs 4 mosMay 2014

India

Java full-stack design and development of imaging scanner's host software. Specialized in MRI and PET. Macro Service Architecture
Philips Healthcare
Aug 20101 yr 7 mosFeb 2012

Java full-stack design and development of imaging scanner's host software. Specialized in X-Ray and Mammography. Macro Service Architecture

Education

Maharshi Dayanand University

Bachelors of Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunication

Maharshi Dayanand University

20024 yrs2006

Gita Bal Niketan

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Headline

Chief Architect, Consul Enterprise @ HashiCorp | Ex-GitHub | Ex-Microsoft

About

Chief Architect & Global Technical Leader, Consul Enterprise. Owning complete architecture strategy (Agentic, cell-based, multi-port). Leading global engineering teams to build scalable, secure distributed systems. Ex-GitHub & Microsoft. Resolving complex enterprise challenges through technology leadership. Helped several customers to scale and secure their enterprise and cloud operations.

Location

Bengaluru

Work experience

Chief Architect, Consul Enterprise | AI Mesh Innovator at HashiCorp, Dec 2025 - Present · 9 mos, Chief Architect, Consul Enterprise Full architecture owner: Agentic, cell-based, multi-port, ext-authz, ext-proc. Global technical lead for Consul Engineering. Authored Consul MCP Server; driving AI mesh innovation.

Staff Software Engineer at HashiCorp, May 2025 - Aug 2026 · 1 yr 4 mos, As the Global Technical Leader and Technical Owner of Consul Service Mesh, I drive the evolving architecture and technological vision of the product. I am currently leading the strategic development of the Agentic Mesh, embedding advanced AI capabilities directly into the service mesh architecture—an initiative supported by multiple filed patents to ensure a sharp competitive edge in the market. Combining deep technical execution with strategic leadership, I partner directly with enterprise clients, field teams, and account executives to solve complex architectural challenges and accelerate customer success.

Senior Software Engineer II at HashiCorp, May 2023 - May 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo, India, At Hashicorp, I am leading several engineering initiatives of Consul Cloud and Terraform Cloud/Enterprise. I am responsible for driving the Architecture and RFCs of the Initiatives, I contribute to the POCs/Exploration/Spikes on critical part of the Initiatives to mitigate the risks, I also contribute development tasks. I also contribute to the demos to the stakeholders. I follow pragmatism and show empathy toward my team members. I also mentor my team.

Senior Software Engineer at GitHub, Jan 2022 - Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos, India, At GitHub, I am leading the software design activities of the leading CI/CD platform GitHub-Actions. My role revolves around building the Software Architecture using inputs from the Product Team. The application serves 90+ million customers every day with 99.9% availability, Secure and compliance with Privacy. I also contribute to the EPIC planning, coding and code reviews, helping the team to achieve the team goals. I re-designed the OIDC access control for GitHub Actions which enabled the customers to granularly define the access-control. I am also the design owner of the new GitHub Actions for solving the Supply Chain Security issues. I also contributed to the GitHub release platform to persist and serve the release-artifacts using OCI images. Tech Stack: Backend: Ruby, Go and C# mircorservices DB: MySQL backed by Vitess Communication: Kafka, twirp with protobuff, HTTP Rest API Log repository: Splunk Error repository: Sentry BI: Kusto Monitoring: Datadog/Lightsteps CI/CD: GitHub Actions

Staff Software Engineer at EFI, Apr 2019 - Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Deep experience in Java full-stack product design development and research helping different product lines of the organization to meet the customer requirements and market competitiveness. Leading and Contributing to the design/development/implementation and cloudification of a product using event driven architecture. The task required deep knowledge and experience in the distributed system to develop a battle-tested, chaos engineering and maintainable system. Skills • Good negotiation, consensus-building & influencing skills, facilitation, and the adaptability to respond to change quickly • Excellent communication including the ability to distil technical details into human terms (Working with PO in backlog grooming) • Strong knowledge of quality best-practices (various types of design, development, tests, performance, deployment etc.) • Highly capable in programming using Java 11(Concurrency, Streams, Design principle and patterns, GUI framework Swing, Java 2D, Spring boot, JUnit). • Highly skilled in data structure, algorithms and problem solving. • Solid knowledge of backend engineering (Event driven architecture using messaging queue, APIs) • Solid knowledge Java and shell script. • Experience designing and implementing RESTful services, Angular 12, good knowledge of HTTP specifics • Attention to details, high standards for quality • Highly developed oral and written communication skills; strong presentation skills • Good knowledge of various networking protocols and terminology (TCP/IP, gateways, routers, firewalls, etc.) • Good knowledge of distributed design. • Expert in agile software development methodology. Tech Stack: Packaging/containerization: Docker and Install shield Communication: Http Rest, JMS, Hotfolder Coding language: Java, Spring Boot Frontend: Angular 12, Java Swing, Java graphics 2D Load balancing: Ribbon, NGNIX API Gateway: Netflix Zuul Service communication: Rabbit MQ and Active MQ Logging: ELK, EFL Log tracing: Sleuth and Zipkin

Principal Engineer at EFI, May 2014 - Apr 2019 · 5 yrs, Experienced in breaking a "Monolith Application" to "Distributed Cloud Native Application" Designing and Implementing highly scalable and available system.

System Specialist at GE Healthcare, Feb 2012 - May 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos, India, Java full-stack design and development of imaging scanner's host software. Specialized in MRI and PET. Macro Service Architecture

Senior Software Engineer at Philips Healthcare, Aug 2010 - Feb 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos, Java full-stack design and development of imaging scanner's host software. Specialized in X-Ray and Mammography. Macro Service Architecture

Education

Bachelors of Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunication, Maharshi Dayanand University

Gita Bal Niketan