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title: "Rahul Sharma - Chief Architect, Consul Enterprise | AI Mesh Innovator in Bengaluru | Tal"
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# Rahul Sharma on Tal

## 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

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