Open To Work
RAJESH PATEL
Burlington
Work Preference
Summary
Accomplished technical leader specializing in cloud security and distributed systems. Successfully led initiatives that transformed infrastructure, streamlined deployment processes, and enforced security policies across complex environments. Seeking to leverage expertise in a strategic leadership position to enhance organizational efficiency and security.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Principal Member of Technical Staff - OCI Key Management Service
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Burlington
10.2019 - 02.2021
- Lead engineering and infrastructure initiatives for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Key Management Service (KMS), focusing on secure, scalable, and highly reliable cloud systems.
- Designed and implemented end-to-end CI/CD workflow infrastructure enabling automated, reliable releases from code commit to production.
- Developed safe deployment strategies (staged rollout, failure isolation) that enhanced system resilience across distributed nodes.
- Modernized infrastructure by implementing load balancing, DNS, and Terraform management to support scalable cloud services.
- Developed hardware emulator frameworks in Go for secure key storage testing and validation.
- Contributed to Linux-based infrastructure modernization (OL9/Evergreen environments).
- Utilized AI tools like CLINE and Codex to streamline engineering processes and accelerate development workflows.
Principal Member of Technical Staff - OCI Cross Domain Solutions Infrastructure
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Burlington
10.2019 - 02.2021
- Cross Domain Solutions provides a secure and reliable manner with full scanning of artifacts crossing boundaries in a disconnected high side Cyber Defense Enclave.
- Lead architecture and engineering efforts for secure cross-domain cloud infrastructure enabling artifact transfer across disconnected government and commercial regions.
- Architected secure distributed platform for cross-domain data movement in high-security, compliance-driven environments.
- Designed and architected shepherd/terraform full deployment for CDS and automated all resource management from scratch.
- Established engineering standards, development practices, and deployment workflows, enhancing consistency and efficiency across the organization.
- Built and configured new cloud environments (dev, staging, production) including networking and tenancy setup.
- Formalized security policies management for the team across tenancies in the permission portal and link to tenancy compartment and other resources.
- Designed and implemented monitoring, alerting, and observability frameworks across constrained environments.
- Replaced high-cost Splunk log processor with lumberjack and a homegrown internal solution, reducing management complexity and operational costs.
- Assisted team in establishing development, unstable, and production tenancies, including configuring workflows and network setups for four new branches.
- Offered architectural ideas and guidance to the team and leadership from security point of view as well as solving some key problems with the current team's challenges.
- Architected and implemented creating odo container based log collection and log scanning for metrics and alarms and create right potential from moving them from DART of current team's control.
- Defined security policies and access control models for multiple tenancies and compartments, strengthening overall security posture.
Principal Member of Technical Staff - OCI Security and Threat Intelligence Products Group
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Burlington
11.2015 - 10.2019
- Designed and developed distributed threat intelligence systems for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, enabling detection, enrichment, and classification of security threats.
- Developed STIX-compliant data models and threat classification systems to enhance threat analysis capabilities.
- Built scalable threat detection pipelines processing multiple intelligence sources.
- Implemented FIPS-compliant encryption for Go-based services, ensuring secure data transmission.
- Designed cross-language architecture (Go + Java interoperability layer) to unify platform components.
- Deployed and operated services on Kubernetes clusters, including containerization, scaling, and service reliability.
- Led enhancements to data processing pipelines including large payload handling and chunking optimization.
- Enhanced observability through implementation of alarms and dashboards for real-time monitoring.
Sr Software Engineer/Scrum Leader
Loftware
Portsmouth
11.2002 - 06.2004
- Barcode & RFID solution architecture, design and implementation from ground up.
- Led Scrum and technical efforts for entire project, ensuring alignment and successful delivery.
- Developed plugin based distributed SCM platform (framework) in .NET.
- Invented DAL and smart persistence object, enabling applications to create, retrieve, and store objects to and from data storage, reducing DB trips through caching.
- This provides entity bean type functionality for .net applications.
- Developed configuration framework to increase system flexibility, enabling seamless adaptations to business needs.
- Configuration layer was extension of existing persistence object layer that allowed storing configuration as xml or database depending on business case by simple configuration changes.
- Architecture used model view controller implementation with default property grid style view for presentation layer.
- Developed device management module to oversee barcode label printing and RFID devices, streamlining device-specific transactional flows.
- Handled management of device-specific transactional flows to ensure smooth processing.
- Contributed document model to support Barcode label and Reports as well as RFID data presentation in universal format.
Principal Member Of Technical Staff - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure(IaaS) / Cloud at Customer
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Burlington
07.2002 - 12.2002
- Architected JSON-based cloud storage platform replacing legacy NoSQL systems.
- Designed and built cloud-native storage and data platform systems to support scalability and reliability of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services.
- Improved system performance by 5x through caching and architecture redesign.
- Built RESTful microservices using Java (JAX-RS) to enable scalable and efficient data access.
- Developed developer-friendly APIs eliminating direct SQL dependencies.
- Enhanced data handling capabilities for high-volume distributed workloads across dev, staging, and production environments, optimizing networking and tenancy setup.
Sr. Software Developer/Project Leader
Framework Systems, Inc
Andover
11.2000 - 06.2002
- Privately funded, early startup enterprise application, software provider of database application layer, independent of technology (.net or EJB) with easy maintenance and portable in regards to technology.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to enhance product features and functionality.
- Mentored junior developers on coding standards and best practices in software development.
- Developed scalable software solutions for complex client requirements at Framework Systems.
Senior Software Engineer
Tilion Inc
Maynard
01.1999 - 11.2000
- VC-funded, early-entry application-service/enterprise software provider of web-based, real-time supply chain performance and event management (SCEM) solutions.
- J2EE architecture deployed as an Internet application, using relational and hierarchical database, with a rule-based system.
- Promoted to senior software engineer role, demonstrating advanced skills and significant contributions.
- Designed and coded receiver for transaction using session bean and message driven bean.
- Developed persistence rule using entity beans (bean-managed and container-managed) and session beans, leveraging Xalan/Xerces for parsing incoming transactions (XML, EDI, CSV).
- Used ILOG’s Jrules, Borland’s application server and oracle database to perform rule processing inside rules engine.
- Developed scheduler engine to support scheduler based analytics using Flux Scheduler.
- Technical leader creating all entity beans (BMP/CMP) and some oracle scripts for entire bean development work and maintenance.
- Led migration from ejb 1.1 to 2.0, ensuring compatibility and improved functionality.
Software Engineer
Lockheed Martin
Burlington
01.1999 - 11.2000
- Designed and implemented server and client application using JNI, XML, RMI, and sockets to distribute objects to java-SWING applet for controlling war command and control training software.
- Designed simulation capturing between existing objective C application, RMI server, socket and java-SWING applet.
- Used XML as wire protocol and servlet jsp and java beans for client UI.
- Integrated Java-Swing with C++ components using JNI.
- Developed multithreaded socket-based server application to monitor multiple WAN clients and evaluate client messages with artificial intelligence.
- Designed and developed tool application using C++, PERL, and shell scripting to automate library generation for core vehicle attributes and interactions.
- Tracked objects shared on LAN network not detected by local federate station in the JSAF (Joint Semi Automated Force) application.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Boston, Massachusetts05-2001
Certificate - Software Development, Software Engineering
BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Boston, Massachusetts05-1998
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
POONA UNIVSERSITY
Poona, India08-1993
Diploma - Mechanical Engineering
GUJARAT TECHNICAL EXAMINATION Board
Gujarat, India08-1989
Skills
- Key Management Systems (KMS)
- Encryption
- Key lifecycle management
- Cross-domain secure systems
- Trust boundary enforcement
- Security
- Threat management
- Cloud Computing Infrastructure
- Kubernetes-based deployments
- Container orchestration
- Cloud infrastructure
- Microservices architecture
- System architecture
- CI/CD pipelines
- DevOps
- Distributed computing
- System integration
- Integrated Systems
- Java
- NET
- Rule-based systems
- C
- Python
- Perl
- Go
- Kotlin
- Rule-based Systems
- Supply Chain Management
- Start-Up Organizations
- Information security
- Threat management
Certification
Scrum Master Certification
Personal Information
Title: Principal Member of Technical Staff / Lead
Languages
- Gujarati
- Hindi
- Marathi
- Sanskrit
- English
- Gujarati
- Hindi
- Marathi
- Sanskrit
Qualifications
20, Distributed Systems, Cloud Security, Technical Leadership, Platform Architecture
Timeline
Principal Member of Technical Staff - OCI Key Management Service
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
10.2019 - 02.2021
Principal Member of Technical Staff - OCI Cross Domain Solutions Infrastructure
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
10.2019 - 02.2021
Principal Member of Technical Staff - OCI Security and Threat Intelligence Products Group
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
11.2015 - 10.2019
Sr Software Engineer/Scrum Leader
Loftware
11.2002 - 06.2004
Principal Member Of Technical Staff - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure(IaaS) / Cloud at Customer
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
07.2002 - 12.2002
Sr. Software Developer/Project Leader
Framework Systems, Inc
11.2000 - 06.2002
Senior Software Engineer
Tilion Inc
01.1999 - 11.2000
Software Engineer
Lockheed Martin
01.1999 - 11.2000
Master of Science - Computer Science
BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Certificate - Software Development, Software Engineering
BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
POONA UNIVSERSITY
Diploma - Mechanical Engineering
GUJARAT TECHNICAL EXAMINATION Board