Vijay Sharma
Chief Technology Officer at U.S. Department of Education
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolVijay Sharma is a seasoned technology executive and current CTO at the U.S. Department of Education with nine years in senior leadership roles driving large-scale IT modernization, cloud migrations, and AI-enabled automation. He blends deep hands-on experience in enterprise architecture, DevOps, PaaS, and release automation with a talent for forming cross-functional teams that dismantle silos and deliver measurable business outcomes. His background spans federal agencies and private sector firms, where he built EPMO centers of excellence, robotics/RPA programs, and data/platform strategies for high-security environments. Vijay is as comfortable architecting GPU-accelerated big data and memory-centric databases as he is shaping policy, governance, and IT financial controls. Known for prioritizing the human element, he emphasizes transparent communication and focused execution when navigating complex technical and organizational change. Based in Washington, D.C., he pairs an MS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins with a track record of turning ambitious modernization roadmaps into operational reality.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityB. Tech, Technology, B. Tech, Technology at Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology
Hindi, English
Github Skills (10)
snap6
cicd5
k8s5
kubernetes5
iot5
microk8s2
cloud-native2
certification1
administrator1
prepare1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
360cloud/My-Scripts
Oct 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
360cloud/terraform-scripts
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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