Rahul Bhattacharya
Senior Solutions Architect - AI Cloud at Microsoft
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
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Top SchoolRahul Bhattacharya is a Senior Solutions Architect specializing in AI and cloud with 10+ years building distributed systems, Kafka integrations, and developer-facing tools. Currently at Microsoft after a tenure at Confluent where he won a 2025 hackathon for applying AI to Kafka, he built a Kafka connector for New Relic and contributed to MCP-based AI-Kafka integrations. His background spans end-to-end architectures—from Kafka Streams and real-time notification systems at BNSF to inventory and data pipelines at Target—paired with hands-on UI and DevOps experience. Rahul holds an MS in Computer Science focused on machine learning from UT Austin and teaches advanced deep learning topics, reflecting a blend of production engineering and academic depth. He also publishes practical tools like a cartography-based model-analysis visualization, showing an interest in interpretable ML and developer tooling beyond core integrations.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer science with specialization in machine learning, Master of Science - MS Computer science with specialization in machine learning at The University of Texas at AustinB.E Computer Science Engineering, B.E Computer Science Engineering at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityMBA Finance, MBA Finance at Questrom School of Business, Boston University
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Github Skills (116)
confluent-platform10
stream10
interactive10
ksqldb10
ansible10
angular10
cli10
kafka-connect10
connect10
kafka10
platform-services10
apache-kafka10
confluent10
confluent-cloud10
javascript9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
newrelic/kafka-connect-newrelic
Jun 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:3 reviews, 24 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year
rahulbats/multi-input
Feb 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:20 commits, 39 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
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