Enterprise Architecture & AI Leadership

Rajesh Samal

Building systems that scale at the intersection of AI, cloud, and distributed architecture — leading teams, shaping platforms, and driving enterprise transformation.

19+ Years Experience Agentic AI Systems Distributed Architecture Engineering Leadership
Rajesh Samal
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Rajesh Samal
Director – Architecture / Principal Architect
19+
Years in Engineering
80+
Engineers Led
200+
Microservices Migrated
26%
Patching Velocity Gain

Leadership Philosophy

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Architecture Governance

I establish design authority and standards that keep systems coherent as they scale — giving teams autonomy within clear architectural guardrails.

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AI-First Thinking

I champion production-grade agentic AI systems — not as experiments, but as core operational platforms that unlock engineering leverage at scale.

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Continuous Transformation

I lead teams through large-scale platform migrations and modernisation with minimal disruption — keeping velocity high while reducing technical debt.

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Event-Driven at Scale

Deep expertise in real-time, event-driven architectures that power high-throughput supply chain, travel, and logistics systems globally.

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Developer Enablement

I invest in internal tooling and DevOps automation that multiplies team output — shifting engineers from toil to high-value problem solving.

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Outcome Orientation

Architecture decisions are always anchored to business outcomes — cost, reliability, speed-to-market — not just technical elegance.

Impact That Speaks

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Cloud Platform Migration

Led the migration of 200+ microservices from GKE to OpenShift, improving operational control, security posture, and infrastructure cost efficiency.

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Agentic AI for DevOps

Designed and shipped production-grade AI automation systems using multi-agent frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI) that reduced toil and accelerated delivery pipelines.

DevTools That Move the Needle

Built internal developer tools that improved patching velocity by 26% — turning a compliance bottleneck into a streamlined automated workflow.

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Real-Time Supply Chain

Architected Kafka-based event streaming platforms that power real-time visibility across global supply chain operations at enterprise scale.

"
Great architecture isn't just about the technology — it's about enabling people to build things they couldn't build before. My job is to clear the path.
— Rajesh Samal, Director of Architecture

Skills & Toolkit

Languages & Frameworks

Java Spring Boot Python

AI & Agentic Systems

LangChain LangGraph CrewAI Multi-Agent Systems

Cloud & Platform

Kubernetes OpenShift Docker GKE

Data & Messaging

Kafka Redis MongoDB Event-Driven Architecture

DevOps & CI/CD

Jenkins GitHub Actions GitOps

Leadership & Practice

Enterprise Architecture Design Governance Microservices Platform Engineering

Experience Timeline

May 2022 – Present
Director – Architecture / Principal Architect
WiseTech Global / Blume Global · Bangalore, India
Leading architecture for a 80+ engineer organisation. Driving enterprise governance, cloud-native transformations, and AI-powered DevOps automation across global logistics and supply chain platforms.
Oct 2015 – May 2022
Java Architect
Sabre · Bangalore, India
Led backend architecture for high-scale global travel distribution systems. Designed resilient, high-availability services handling millions of transactions daily across airlines and travel providers worldwide.
Sep 2014 – Oct 2015
Principal Consultant
NTT Data · India
Delivered enterprise modernisation and digital transformation engagements, advising clients on architecture strategy, technology selection, and large-scale system migrations.