Rakesh Shah
Head Of Customer Engineering Strategic Accounts
Fremont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRakesh Shah is a seasoned cloud and customer engineering leader with over 25 years of technical and commercial experience, currently heading Customer Engineering for Strategic Accounts at Google after serving as a Principal Cloud Architect. He has a strong track record of closing large, complex deals by translating business requirements into tailored cloud solutions and orchestrating cross-functional teams and executive stakeholders. His career includes senior architect and solutions roles at Microsoft, LinkedIn, Verizon/Terremark and Yahoo, reflecting deep expertise in enterprise cloud architecture, solution sales, and account leadership. Certified in TOGAF and ITIL and pursuing executive education at Stanford GSB, he blends formal architecture rigor with practical operational discipline. Based in Fremont, CA, he is known for rapidly understanding customer environments and proposing unconventional, business‑focused technical approaches that consistently hit challenging sales targets. Despite a broad enterprise focus, he retains hands-on engineering roots from early systems and software training, enabling him to bridge strategy and implementation effectively.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Computer Science University of Mumbai, Bachelor's Computer Science University of Mumbai at ITIL Foundation Management Certified.BCOM Accounting Commerce, BCOM Accounting Commerce at University of MumbaiEnterprise Architecture TOGAF 9Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture TOGAF 9Enterprise Architecture at TOGAF 9 Level1 and Level2 CertifiedB.S in Computer Science Software Eng, B.S in Computer Science Software Eng at Aptech Computer EducationStanford LEAD Professional Certificate Executive Education, Stanford LEAD Professional Certificate Executive Education at Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Gujarati, Hindi
Github Skills (20)
kubernetes10
docker10
bicep10
go10
arm-templates10
arm10
azure10
kubernetes-monitoring9
mesos9
scheduling9
azure-arm-templates8
terraform-provider8
terraform8
azure-resource-manager7
cicd4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
srakesh28/azure-ubuntu-ror-postgress
Oct 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:218 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
srakesh28/azuredevops-terraform-ansible-packer-sig
Aug 2018 - Oct 2019
Demo Terraform/Ansible CI/CD using VSTS
Contributions:122 commits, 121 pushes in 1 year 2 months
ansiblecicdterraform
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